Image Recognition, Mini Apps, QR Codes: How China Uses Tech To Sort Its Waste (techcrunch.com) 22
An anonymous reader shares a report: China's war on garbage is as digitally savvy as the country itself. Think QR codes attached to trash bags that allow a municipal government to trace exactly where its trash comes from. On July 1, the world's most populated city Shanghai began a compulsory garbage sorting program. Under the new regulations (in Chinese), households and companies must classify their wastes into four categories and dump them in designated places at certain times. Noncompliance can lead to fines. Companies and properties that don't comply risk having their credit rating lowered. The strict regime became the talk of the city housing over 24 million residents, who criticized the program's inflexibility and confusing waste categorization. Gratefully, China's tech startups are here to help.
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That is the cost of freedom.
A society with garbage, drugs, violence is a byproduct of freedom. To fix these problems we will need to make decisions that all people will need to change a behavior or stop using or a product. Every time we make a new rule, to say to the Citizen you Must Do/Do not this is taking away a bit of our freedom.
Now I am not doing some libertarian rant.
If you are for Gun Rights, don't pretend for an instant, that we will be safer with everyone having guns, it isn't. We will be safer
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this is a sign of a society with no respect and no time to care because profit profit profit...
FTFY.
PS: Most "drugs violence" is a result of people not being free to use them.
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Part of the reason for all the political conflict, is the fact Freedom is hard to balance. My Freedom will probably conflict with someone else's freedom. My Freedom for Clean Drinking Water, may conflict with a local farmer who has freedom to farm and grow food, where it may pollute the drinking water supply.
I don't think the freedom to pollute, dump garbage everywhere, cut down forests, etc., is something to be negociated.
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>"If you are for Gun Rights, don't pretend for an instant, that we will be safer with everyone having guns, it isn't. We will be safer with less guns. However you can still be for Gun Rights it is because you want freedom, and you value this freedom over a degree of public safety."
Your premise is completely wrong and the comparison is invalid. Guns are used up to 1 to 2.5 MILLION times a year by normal citizens to stop crime (and overwhelmingly without needing to kill anyone). Passing laws that restrict
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Let's also start fining people for not correctly separating stuff into the colored bins for recycling, like they do in (eg.) Germany.
Around here people just treat all bins the same and dump their garbage in whichever one's closest.
(Land of the "free", right...?)
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I think the QR codes will survive even if you "crush" a bag.
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Who knew China had a PR Department? (Score:2)
"...digitally savvy as the country itself" and "gratefully."