What’s the difference? That is always a good question to ask anytime of the day or night.
So what is the difference between a geek and an a$££$le?
Well a geek like me complete with beard,cardie and occasional pipe, would take his Mac to bed and lie awake thinking of gadgets and dreams of coding the perfect iPhone App or wondering if he could ever afford the estimated $150,000 to buy all iPhone apps.
I might be found fiddling with a remote control Thomas the tank Engine or a scale replica of a Dyson that actually sucks (ok I have a grandson to indulge).
What I won’t be doing is inventing or worrying about a tag for tracking rubbish. That isn’t geekdom or even tech savvy that is being a grade A unmentionable word!
To what do I refer?
Quote :
“The ebb and flow of thousands of pieces of household rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags.
It is hoped that making people confront the final journey of their waste will make them reduce what they throw away.
Initially, 3,000 pieces of rubbish, donated by volunteers, will be tagged in New York, Seattle and London.
"Trash is almost an invisible system today," Assaf Biderman, one of the project leaders at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told BBC News.
"You throw something into the garbage and a lot of us forget about it. It gets buried, it gets burned, it gets shipped overseas."
The Trash Track aims to make that process - termed the "removal chain" - more transparent.
Friends of the Earth's Senior Waste Campaigner Michael Warhurst said the project could be a "useful tool" for highlighting the impact of rubbish.
"[Waste] doesn't simply disappear when we throw it away, and all too often it ends up causing damage when it could be recycled instead.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8149183.stm
With apologies to Waste Aware Scotland and the fine folk who work there (waves to daughter) this is the work of the crazies! I don’t mind recycling. I don’t mind composting. But why are we spending money tracking rubbish?
What a rubbish idea!
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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We have been recycling for a long time here brown,blue and green bins but in two weeks we start with the new way of doing things. We now have a waste food caddy and yet another bin. We have the encyclopedia of how to fill the bins too. If they send anymore I will have no garden left. We still have to take the glass to the recycling point by ourselves. Nothing against it but does it have to be so complicated. Love Joan.
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