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Futuristic Trash Tubes Could Be Coming to New York City
The ClosedLoops team is developing a pneumatic waste-removal system for the High Line.
Picture a far-off Utopian future: A New Yorker throws away a piece of trash in a park—maybe an apple core or some plastic packaging—and it’s automatically sucked through a vacuum-like tube that runs beneath the streets, whisked away to a storage facility where it’s appropriately sorted and disposed of. No garbage bags on the curb, no garbage trucks in the street.
That’s exactly the kind of technology that could be coming to New York’s High Line park.