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With being ever greener remaining an important priority for all of us, researchers are set to track around 3,00 piece of rubbish to show their final destinations, and how they end up there. Rubbish, given it’s not particularly ‘glamorous’ image we don’t want to see where our rubbish goes, and as such its transit is fairly invisible, and do you know where it goes once your bin is collected? I’m guessing that even if you do initially, in the majority of cases two or three steps down the line you don’t.

Thus the point of this particular study is to draw the average person’s attention to not only the route that your rubbish takes from bin to landfill or wherever its final destination may be, but also show how much of our resources and energy are expended merely moving it about from place to place. The problem with rubbish, as well as it being made virtually invisible once collected from our bins is that, understandably, as soon as we throw it away we sever any connection we may have had with it, and it’s forgotten about, out of sight out of mind and all that.

The researchers at MIT are hoping that tracking rubbish will hopefully have a significantly positive effect on waste disposal and management. Carlo Ratti, a member of the project said “Think about a future where thanks to smart tags we will not have waste anymore, everything will be traceable.” The full article can be found here on the BBC website.

We here at Gadgets Towers have just had some new recent additions to our Eco Gifts section, so why not check out our new recycled bags, mirrors, and bowls? Just click on the pictures below to go to the appropriate page.