Keep Britain Tidy

Keep Britain Tidy tested out a ‘talking bin’ in London. The way it worked was that a motion sensor was put inside a bin which activated when it detected an item passing it, then ‘talking’ to the person who put something inside it, creating a rather comical interaction.

Again I feel this relates to the incentive to recycle, giving people an initiative to recycle, with the talking bin being placed in a popular area, passer by’s would hear the bin ‘talk’, and perhaps want to give it a go too, as you can see in the video it creates quite a reaction.

The only negative to this is that perhaps the novelty of the idea will fall off quite quickly as more and more people hear about it.