[NetBehaviour] Trash Track

[Olga]

I found this posted on Neural.it and thought it was interesting
because it points I think not only to the impact of waste in our
environment but to the impact of the divorce between us and our waste.
It is the fact that our waste simply disappears, and that there is a
whole infrastructure in place to perform that disappearance, that
allows for that waste to keep growing.

I quote from the article:

A team of MIT researchers today announced a major project called Trash
Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away.
Trash Track relies on the development of special electronic tags that
will track different types of waste on their journey through the
disposal systems of New York and Seattle. The project will monitor the
patterns and costs of urban disposal and create awareness of the
impact of trash on our environment - revealing the last journey of our
everyday objects.

more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/trash-0715.html

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Olga P Massanet
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