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Smart tags to reveal where our trash ends up - environment -

newscientist.com — New Scientist is collaborating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a ground-breaking experiment to electronically tag and follow ordinary trash

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  • ScottMcIntyre, on 07/16/2009, -0/+18Oscar the Grouch as the thumbnail for an environmental story? Fantastic!! ;-)
  • hawkspur, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Yeah those MIT guys don't know what they are doing. /s

    By knowing where an individual piece of trash goes, you can help reduce waste.
  • moliver21, on 07/16/2009, -1/+5Now if only they could reveal where the white trash ends up.
  • hawkspur, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Someone didn't read the article.
  • Ghostwo, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1"MIT researcher accidentally throws away GPS tracker. Publishes data."
  • H3llr41s3r, on 07/16/2009, -2/+3The Chinese already know where their trash ends up, 60% of E-Waste in America has a tag that says "Made in China"
  • jrm125, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Well, since this is Boston...ends up in Southie.
  • megawiz, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1one for Cheney
    one for Bush
    one for Limbaugh

    I know, I know... but I had to
  • phosphite, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1I don't see why companies aren't taking our garbage bags, tagging which house it's from, searching through the trash and finding out what we bought, and then using that to send us advertisements in the mail. It's a dirty job, but "one man's trash is another man's treasure"...
  • OUSooner, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Won't electronically tagging the garbage...increase the amount of garbage?
  • Mesmeriser, on 07/16/2009, -2/+1aah ... alittle too much info for me!
  • inactive, on 07/17/2009, -4/+1I see a black market in RFID jamming forming

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