Sunday, January 6, 2013

Sanitation Equipment

It's a wild, wild world of waste out there. According to the World Bank, the average waste produced per person per day is about 1.2kg (of course, they caution that global estimates vary widely - more on that here). In any case, it means that a lot of waste going from place to place. 'Sanitation' is the name of the game and somehow it's all in a day's work - removed from sight (unless of course, we're lucky enough to realize how important these services are to our modern lives). But apparently I'm nowhere near the only one taking pictures of the process...





Swedish bins and a bit about incineration

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

UK rubbish


Leeds University
Gateshead, UK
White Rose Centre, Leeds
Theater Royal, Newcastle, UK
Newcastle City Centre, UK

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Friday, December 14, 2012

Doggie do do

Clear messaging for dog owners?  Photo from Tim and Sue in Rounhay Park, Leeds, UK.
I dunno . . . seems a little complicated?

Heiden, Switzerland

In case you need a mutt mitt...


Lake Louise

Chilliwack
  
 

Digital junk

Drag and drop to discard.




The default icon on a Mac is a sleek metal-looking trash bin while Windows uses a bin marked with the recycling arrow.  Did older operating systems have similar ones? I can't recall..

Makeshift bins



In a park.


On a street corner.


At an apple orchard.






On the beach. 






(Last five photos from Sue in Quintana Roo.)

Garbage replaces the news in London...