We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF • Hacker News Board

Re: We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

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Post by vcdimension » Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:09 PM UTC

IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #102

vcdimension wrote: post #13

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Have you seen this project: http://thecrowbox.com/ and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8lZ4I-UamM Maybe we could train squirrels too..

I've seen this, and it is rather sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iux2OV3w4NI

Hahaha!! I think it's feasible we could train birds to do that. I would rather live in a world like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIwa9sPFT5I than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mg7qKstnPk

Re: We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

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Post by hapless » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 9:08 AM UTC

baud147258 wrote: post #97

hapless wrote: post #46

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Every smoker is producing 20 to 40 pieces of litter per day -- every butt that gets tossed.

20 to 40 smokes every day is very heavy smoking, I'd guess most smoker aren't at that level

It's somewhat heavy, but not extraordinarily so. The average smoker consumes just under a pack a day. A heavy smoker might go through two or three packs a day.

Re: We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

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Post by jxramos » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 4:33 PM UTC

"""Rubbish is working with cities and communities to create a smart approach to litter, using data to put cigarette disposals and trash cans where they will have the biggest impact."""

I really like that approach to quantitate where the hotspots are and to deliver bins accordingly.

Re: We picked up, tracked, and analyzed 130k pieces of litter in SF

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Post by dilap » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 5:02 PM UTC

tarr11 wrote: post #62

dilap wrote: post #55

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I think it’s mostly culture. Burning man has zero trash cans and pretty damn close to zero litter. Living in SF is like living inside a garbage dump combined with a sewer. It’s insane.

Maybe not... https://www.sfgate.com/travel/burningman/amp/Burning-Man-gar...

Zero litter at the event, but yeah, some people are hella irresponsible w/ disposing of the trash after they've left the event. They're not just throwing it on the ground (that I've seen, anyway), but they're leaving it in any random trash can they can find, rather than paying to dump it (which there is ample opportunity to do -- a cottage industry springs up of people taking trash for $5 a bag post BM).

Probably burning man should just include end-of-event trash disposal in the ticket price, and have an official collection area people can dump their trash. (Probably some reluctance on BM part to do this 'cuz of the somewhat-inaccurate "radical self-reliance" principle.)