Design
Public Trash Cans That Aren't Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups
A designer in Copenhagen comes up with a solution to her city's trash problem.
Sandra Hoj was getting fed up with her fellow Copenhageners. All along the city's waterfront, paper coffee cups overflowed from trash cans and littered the ground.
"Last week I stopped to take more pictures of the trash at the bridge, and I could feel the anger building up inside," she writes on her blog Classic Copenhagen. '"Look at this mess," I said out loud to no one. Someone replied, "it isn't ours," and I knew that was probably the case, but I got increasingly annoyed all the same. Winding up speaking in a really loud tone. Very counterproductive, don't think I didn't know that at the time.'