*Dr. Carlo urbanely rockin' it with those Sensable City projects.
http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/89
"Trash Track
Key team members: Carlo Ratti (founder SENSEable City Lab, MIT), Rex E. Britter (Professor at Cambridge University, Engineering Department), Stephen Miles (Research Scientist at MIT, Auto-ID Labs), William J. Mitchell (Director MIT Design Laboratory), Valerie M. Thomas (Associate Professor at Georgia Tech and recycling expert), Eugenio Morello (post-doctoral fellow, SENSEable City Lab, MIT), Assaf Biderman (Assistant Director, SENSEable City Lab, MIT), Francesco Calabrese (post-doctoral associate, SENSEable City Lab, MIT), Fabien Girardin (visiting PhD student, SENSEable City Lab, MIT), Aaron Koblin (Interection design and visualization consultant), Armin Linke (Photographer and Video Artist), Christine Outram (research student, MIT), Francisca Rojas (SENSEable PhD candidate, MIT)
Trash Track is inspired by the NYC Green Initiative, which aims to increase the rate of waste recycling in the city to almost 100% by 2030. The project considers how pervasive technologies can help expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. Trash Track will tag different types of waste and follow these through the city's waste management system to reveal the end-of-life journey of our everyday objects. Whereas most focus in the economic system is on the supply chain, Trash Track will help underscore the environmental impact of consumer waste by visualizing the waste chain, revealing the ultimate destination of the things we throw away.
