EPC's Computer Recyling Blog » gps http://blog.epcusa.com A blog about EPC, computer recycling, data security, and other IT related mess Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:40:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 English Trashmen equipped with Computers, GPS http://blog.epcusa.com/2009/03/english-trashmen-equipped-with-computers-gps/ http://blog.epcusa.com/2009/03/english-trashmen-equipped-with-computers-gps/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:18:51 +0000 Brian Wahoff http://blog.epcusa.com/?p=22 From the Across the Pond department: Waste collection crews in England are being equiped with computers and GPS in order to build “rubbish profiles” on residents. These computers will feed crewmembers up-to-the-minute information on the houses they are servicing.

In addition, information will be collected and provided to local authorities so they can issue recycling advice, or fines for residents that fail to obey recycling rules.

These processes are part of a government strategy to increase recycling to 40% of trash collected by 2010, and 50% by 2020.

While I’m in favor of increased recycling, the very idea of automatic fines seems like something out of science fiction movies like “Demolition Man” or “The Fifth Element”.

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