Dirty Talk to Clean Up the Streets
From a news report out of Sweden:
The Swedish city of Malmö is seeking to combat littering by installing rubbish bins that express arousal when fed rubbish, with phrases like, ‘hmmm, yeah’, ‘that was crazy good’, and ‘just to the left’.
“The sentences are part of the campaign’s intention to get more people to talk about the dirtiest thing there is: littering. The stuff that ends up in our streets, squares, and sea,” Marie Persson, section chief at the city’s roads department, told the Sydsvenskan newspaper. “So please go ahead and feed the bins with more rubbish…yes, just like that.”
Then there is this piece that raised some questions about the initiative:
In 2017, the city installed 18 talking trash cans, with only two still functioning. The older cans didn’t deliver racy messages, and one wonder what, if any, audio message users need when throwing away trash. For that matter, why is there only a sexy female voice option?