A revolutionary garbage bin which rejects its content onto the user. No utility you say? How about getting an environmental consciousness or just pretending to have one to play pranks on people.
A key strategy in to orthodox economic theory is to absorb profits and reject costs of production on the collectivity. We see this idea at work when industries get a high return on their sales, and pay insignificant taxes for the pollution they create. But rejecting costs onto the collectivity is not the monopoly of profit-oriented corporations; individuals also behave this way when they throw something out.
The user’s attention is drawn to alternative ways of disposal, possible reuse, and perhaps a total reconceptualization of consumption. Recycling is only part of the solution, in that it is certainly not sufficient to create a sustainable consumption mode. Our intolerant garbage bin systematically rejects items -many of which should not even find their way there- and forces us to consider an alternative to our disposable lifestyle. The idea is to confront users with an object that is as first degree and systematic as our behavior when it comes to throwing things away as a fast, guilt-less solution.
by Elie Zananiri
and Maroussia L?©vesque
© 2005 Digital Spa
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