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Results from MIT's Trash Tracking Experiment
Back in July, researchers at MIT's SENSEable City lab launched an experiment: They'd tag thousands of pieces of trash in New York and Seattle...
09.19.09
Their idea was that this kind of tracking was the first step in exposing people to a product's "removal chain" and maybe even making 100 percent recycling a reality in the future.They're wrapping up the experiment now. The TrashTrack site has been updated with a few screen shots of the vizualizations they created.They've also announced some dates for upcoming live exhibitions in New York and Seattle that are likely to be pretty eye-opening. This is part of a product's life cycle that is otherwise all but invisible to us.