An overflowing waste bin in a park: pizza boxes piled up, coffee cups, napkins and beer cans on the ground. Cities all over Europe have been fighting against such a deluge of waste for years. Corona exacerbates the problem because people spend more time outdoors. “With classic rubbish bins, waste management in most cities is now reaching its limits. Many metropolitan areas in Finland, for example, had to empty public waste bins up to four times a day even before the pandemic,” said Antti Kinnunen, marketing manager at Finbin. The Finnish company’s answer: a waste bin called CitySolar, which compresses waste and thereby has a much higher capacity. A waste bin that is connected to the Internet and triggers an emptying before reaching the maxi mum fill level. “With CitySolar, we are making a contribution to reducing disagreeable waste scenes in cities and improving the CO2 balance in waste management. Up to four out of five trips can be avoided with the networked waste bin,” Kinnunen added.
Ron Walters became interested in handcranked street organs when he saw one playing in a video. He summed up his reaction with: "How cool is that."
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