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Many were amazed yesterday seeing hundreds of Koreans, who after watching football in a mall, picked up every last particle of litter before leaving. Westerners probably need some incentive. I envision a chip that registers, for example when a candy wrapper is torn open (a circuit is broken) and then
dropped (momentum shock). This would cause the chip to bug the litterbug by squealing (or oinking), first in a low volume and then louder and louder, until being shut off when passed through the opening of a special trashcan. Of course the chip with battery would present some recycling challenges and it would liven up cinemas.
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//amazed yesterday seeing hundreds of Koreans, who after watching football in a mall, picked up every last particle of litter before leaving// |
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In the west, we have people that are willing to get paid to do this. We call them cleaners. |
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"Many were amazed yesterday seeing hundreds of Koreans, who after watching football in a mall, picked up every last particle of litter before leaving."
Culture, peer pressure or Big Brother? |
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Phoenix: It's called "being a good citizen". Kind of unfasionable these days in sneering, cynical, decadent western societies. |
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We should not be amazed. We should be ashamed. At ourselves. |
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No technological solution is necessary, other than in those public spaces where all litter bins have been removed to frustrate terrorist attacks. Sadly, in my opinion this is entirely a cultural and educational problem. |
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8th of 7 is my hero for the day. |
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I don´t think this is a laudable attitude at all.
Littering provides unskilled labourers with a job. Without us pesky litterbugs the streetcleaners of this world would be forced into crime , and we´d all be far worse off. Except cops... maybe we could turn the burliest streetcleaners into cops and sorta minimise the problem |
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Ah. The same sneering, cynical, decadent western society that rears people to paint others with a broad brush. |
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I guess we should call it culture, then. |
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