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Trash Track
everydaytrash — ... A group of MIT researchers launched a new project called “Trash Track” today, which will enlist volunteers from New York and Seattle to have their trash tagged with specially-coded wireless markers and tracked through the various waste streams. ...

Will Talking Trash Really Address the Root Waste Issues?
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit — ... People don't really thinks that when they toss an empty cup--or an old ink cartridge, or whatever--into a trash can, that the item just, poof, disappears. Right? I mean, no one really thinks that. Regardless of whether they do, many people act as if that's the case. Out of site, out of mind. And so in an effort to give a face and a story to some of the trash that's tossed in test sites London, New York City and Seattle, a group of MIT researchers plan on using crews of volunteers to help them toss a few thousand wireless tracking devices out along with the trash. Then, they'll ...

Track Your Trash
Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com — [image] Even if you recycle as much as you can, surely you throw away a fair amount every day and so does your neighbor and your neighbor’s neighbor and so on. It may sound elementary, but have you ever stopped to think about where that garbage truck really goes when it hauls your trash from the curb? That’s what M.I.T. Senseable City Lab researchers set out to discover with their Trash Track program . They want to uncover possible inefficiencies in recycling and sanitation systems. Researchers have asked volunteers in New York City and Seattle to help affix electronic tags ...

Buttology 1
Pruned — ... a place which doesn’t even have a treatment process in place yet.” * Nomadic Spaces: The Afghan Sewer Kids of Rome  BBC “Italian police have found more than 100 immigrants, including 24 Afghan children, living in the sewer system beneath railway stations in Rome.” * (Image courtesy of MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory.) Trash Track  MIT “Trash Track relies on the development of smart ...

Where does your trash go?
Environment — ... of New York. The so-called “ Trash Track ” project asks a deceptively simple question: Where do all those cans, disposable coffee cups, and old computers go when you throw them out? With the aid of modern technology, it seeks to supply an answer — in real time. Researchers from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab will attach some 3,000 custom-designed tags to bits of trash in Seattle, New York, and London. The smart tags transmit information on location and movement over cellphone networks to a central server at MIT, where, eventually, it will be analyzed. About the size of a small ...