Your rubbish bin, overflowing with filth – it doesn’t have to be that way! You can fit more. The wonderfully designed Smash Can makes it easy, featuring a telescoping lid that lets you compress your junk with clean hands.
Electrolux may be known for its outlandish concepts, but when their CEO promises to look into reclaiming the plastic waste from the ocean and turning it into vacuum cleaners, I can’t help but believe him.
As a BlackBerry user, I’m not sure how I feel about 1500 UK binmen being given BlackBerrys for work. I don’t want to be elitist, but if a binman wolf-whistles me and asks if I’m on BBM, I’d die.
Rubbish powered the DeLorean’s Mr Fusion Home Energy Reactor power source in Back To The Future, so it makes sense that now we’re in the future we can make ethanol fuel from fruit peel.
Popular Mechanics compared three garbage bags – from Hefty, Grip-Rite and EconoGreen’s recycled – testing weight capacity, abrasion resistance and puncture resistance to find the toughest one. The pricier, recycled EconoGreen won the day.
Organic garbage, like banana peels and coffee grounds, stink. Sitting in your garbage can all day at room temperature guarantees that your place will smell like a dump. Not if it’s frozen, however.
