#2260: Wastepanes

Public spaces contain fewer rubbish bins than ever before (partly because of the perceived need to deny terrorists receptacles in which to hide bombs).

This has led to a phenomenon called Litterplugs, in which people without access to bins find a convenient crevice and shove their litter there.

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Today’s invention exploits this tendency by providing locations into which people can cram their refuse legitimately. They would shove eg crisp packets, crushed drinks cans, etc into the top of a gap between two plexiglass screens mounted on a wall.

This would allow inspection of the contents and when full, could be easily cleaned out by allowing one sheet to rotate about one corner fixing (red), dumping the contents into a larger, mobile waste bin.

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