Not necessarily although a federal standard would help. A single big state like California could implement it and the standard would propagate itself from there.
> Where do I throw away the packaging from the Vietnamese cookies I bought while on vacation? Of course there are corner cases to be handled. But what percentage of the trash is Vietnamese cookie box and Japanese candy…
9 labels is too many. Also, those pictures are kind of hard to match. It needs to be dead simple: number of labels = number of bins available. Maybe number of labels can be more than number of bins by 1 or 2 at most.…
What do you think of my proposed solution I posted above?
It's even better if we move the problem of classifying from the person throwing trash to the time of manufacturing of the article. You could mark each article with #1, #2 or #3 and standardize each bin to be called bin…
What do you think of my solution posted above?
It doesn't have to be "1", "2" or "3" necessarily, it could be A, B or C or any other marker or some other icon. This system could be adaptable as well. So suppose, you have only 2 bins, say bins: #1 and #2. The article…
Here's the problem with current trash UX: 1. Person walks up with trash in hand to 3 bins. Each bin has a poster with pictures of items which are meant for that bin. Each person has to make O(n) comparisons for each of…
Not necessarily although a federal standard would help. A single big state like California could implement it and the standard would propagate itself from there.
> Where do I throw away the packaging from the Vietnamese cookies I bought while on vacation? Of course there are corner cases to be handled. But what percentage of the trash is Vietnamese cookie box and Japanese candy…
9 labels is too many. Also, those pictures are kind of hard to match. It needs to be dead simple: number of labels = number of bins available. Maybe number of labels can be more than number of bins by 1 or 2 at most.…
What do you think of my proposed solution I posted above?
It's even better if we move the problem of classifying from the person throwing trash to the time of manufacturing of the article. You could mark each article with #1, #2 or #3 and standardize each bin to be called bin…
What do you think of my solution posted above?
It doesn't have to be "1", "2" or "3" necessarily, it could be A, B or C or any other marker or some other icon. This system could be adaptable as well. So suppose, you have only 2 bins, say bins: #1 and #2. The article…
Here's the problem with current trash UX: 1. Person walks up with trash in hand to 3 bins. Each bin has a poster with pictures of items which are meant for that bin. Each person has to make O(n) comparisons for each of…