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Is The Humble Garbo About To Be Sucked Away?

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9:00AM September 22, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Sydney City Council is considering a plan to swap out garbage trucks for high-powered vacuum garbage tubes. Kind of like Futurama, but with trash rather than people. Unless you stuffed people in there. Which I’m legally obliged to point out would be a very bad idea indeed. More »

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Poor Robot Vacuum Has To Suck Fukushima’s Radioactive Trash

11:43PM July 8, 2011 | Sam Biddle

iRobot’s best known for the robots that clean your living room, not robots that clean crippled nuclear reactors. But they leant a hand to Japan’s infamously infirm power plant for some very, very messy work. More »

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The Trash Boat Is Made Of Plastic Bottles And Advertising Banners

11:24AM June 10, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

A boat made entirely from trash set sail from Taiwan this week. The trimaran was part of an eco-friendly boat competition sponsored by the National Geographic Channel in Taiwan. More »

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The Story Of E-Waste: What Happens To Tech Once It’s Trash

4:00AM April 23, 2011 | Gord Gable - Maximum PC

The brand new tablet/smartphone/GPU you grabbed last week is the cat’s meow. But what happens to it – or  to any of the devices you once treasured- when you don’t want or need them anymore? Where do they go? Is there a reliable, “green” way to dispose of them? And hey, does one extra electronic gadget in a landfill really put the big hurt on the environment? More »

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Scrape Table Scraps Into The Portotrash, And Not On The Floor

9:40PM April 15, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Oh man, I need about a dozen of these Portotrash clamps for my house. Try, I guess the clue is in the name – “porto” – but if I’m lazy enough to need an easier way to clean up crap on tables, then I’m lazy enough to want at least a hundred of them. They cost $US20 each, and come with two plastic clamps for surfaces up to 2.5 inches thick. [Quirky via Werd]

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How Can A Cathedral Built From Trash Look So Beautiful?

10:40PM January 18, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

The Queen may have Buckingham Palace, Nicolas Cage may own half of Europe’s castles, but Don Justo has this beautiful cathedral of trash. He’s been building it in Madrid for 50-odd years now, and is almost finished. More »

Sit On A Pile Of Trash

10:00AM December 12, 2010 | Casey Chan

This “Trash Cube”, designed by Nicolas Le Moigne, uses leftover roofing material to make up its shape. When workers throw scrap fibre cement away, they toss it into a cube-shaped mold to form the seat. Recycling is useful. More »

Keep Your Hands Clean And Garbage Crunched With The Smash Can

6:20AM October 26, 2010 | Sam Biddle

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. More »

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Roosevelt Island, Where Trash Is Collected At 100km/h

1:20PM May 13, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

On Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land in New York’s East River, no one takes their trash to the curb. They just drop it down a chute, anywhere on the island, and pneumatic pipes take care of the rest. More »

Forget The Wealth, Share The Trash

4:00AM December 21, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Seriously, folks, this is not what we do with your tips. I swear. Well, for most of them, anyway. This is actually a concept rubbish bin built on a popular meme. More »