Design
These Bird-Shaped Recycling Bins Just Beg to Be Fed
The gaping-mouthed receptacles are meant to awaken one's inner parent.
Walk around any major city, and it won't be long before you find that some dingus has hucked a newspaper or soda can on the ground.
What's wrong with these litterers—can they not find a recycling bin? That's not exactly the problem, at least in Hong Kong, according to designer Kin Wai Michael Siu. Interviews and "intensive observations" he's conducted have taught him that many people just don't want to touch the bins because they can be gross and janky-looking: