I found this posted on Neural.it and thought it was interesting because it points I think not only to the impact of waste in our environment but to the impact of the divorce between us and our waste. It is the fact that our waste simply disappears, and that there is a whole infrastructure in place to perform that disappearance, that allows for that waste to keep growing.
I quote from the article: A team of MIT researchers today announced a major project called Trash Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away. Trash Track relies on the development of special electronic tags that will track different types of waste on their journey through the disposal systems of New York and Seattle. The project will monitor the patterns and costs of urban disposal and create awareness of the impact of trash on our environment - revealing the last journey of our everyday objects. more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/trash-0715.html -- Olga P Massanet ................................. www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
