Design
Using Kaleidoscopic Mirrors to Fight India's Littering Problem
The Cleanoscope, a public trashcan in Mumbai that looks like a kaleidoscope, is meant to make throwing away trash fun.
India is far from the world's largest producer of municipal waste – first-world countries like the United States and Russia vie for that distinction – but you might think it is after visiting any major Indian city.
Sticky plastic bottles, food scrapings and packages, animal dung and a foul rainbow of assorted rubbish paint the streets like a coat of toxic algae. Littering is rampant in India despite laws to control it; some go so far as to say it's a socially accepted way to dispose of trash.