"Across the world today, the people who run large companies and city budgets seem to have forgotten what they knew in their youth, and they disregard the sanitation workers who keep us all from drowning in our own filth. They cut corners on safety, refuse to raise wages, and try their best to keep trash collectors doing dirty, dangerous work for peanuts. And so labor wars break out, in cities from New York to Birmingham to Chennai, as the garbage workers are forced to go on strike. It’s been happening for centuries, but 2025 has been a landmark year for sanitation strikes, and for the ruling classes’ opposition to them.

Politicians and the police have conspired to keep the workers down, the billionaire-owned media have spread propaganda against them, and scab laborers from their own cities have betrayed them for the sake of a quick buck (or quid, or rupee). Still, the garbage workers fight on. Theirs is one of the most important labor struggles of all, and one everybody ought to support to the hilt. It’s obvious, but it bears repeating: the people who do society’s most basic and vital work ought to be paid well and respected for it. Anyone who stands on the opposite side of that particular picket line belongs in the bin with the rest of the trash.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “refuse and recyclable material collector” is the fourth most deadly job in the United States today, behind only roofing, commercial hunting and fishing, and logging. Interestingly, “police officer” doesn’t crack the top 10—so for all the “thin blue line” sloganeering, garbage workers are objectively braver and more deserving of praise than cops. They get hit by cars a lot, and as climate change continues to ramp up, more and more of them suffer from extreme heat exhaustion. In 2023 alone, 41 of them were killed on the job."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/all-power-to-the-garbage-workers

#Trash #TrashCollection #GarbageWorkers #Capitalism

Ứng dụng "MüllPilot" giúp bạn không bao giờ quên ngày đổ rác! 🗑️

Một lập trình viên nghiệp dư đã dùng AI (Cursor, ChatGPT) để tạo ứng dụng này, với các tính năng:
- Thông báo đẩy nhắc lịch đổ rác cá nhân
- Không cần tài khoản, không thu thập dữ liệu
- Nhẹ, được xây dựng bằng AI

Ứng dụng hiện có người dùng ở Đức, Áo, Ba Lan và Thụy Điển.

#AI #ứngdụng #laptrinh #kiemtra #MüllPilot #thairac #trashcollection #aidevelopment #indiedev

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1mhn4bk/160_user

One of the cons of a bike commute is you know _exactly_ on what day everyone in Cambridge decided to leave out their stinkiest garbage for trash collection.

Of course it's on a day when it's 90F and 90% humidity 🤢

#bikeCommute #cambridgeMA #trash #trashCollection

Mad respect to all the #SanitationWorkers picking up our garbage on these hot days. I don't know how they deal with the odor. For that alone, they deserve respect and good pay.

Seriously. I hope you're all getting the compensation you deserve.
#trash #garbage #summer #trashcollection

Litter Buggies Haul Trash Off The Beach

There is a depressing amount of trash in our oceans, and a lot of it is washes up on beaches. [Glenn Morris] has turned collecting all this trash into a favourite pastime, using a series of custom radio-controlled Litter Buggies to haul the load.

The most basic versions of these buggies are off the shelf RC rock crawlers, usually a Traxxas TRX-4, with a basket mounted in place of the body. However, [Glenn] has developed the buggies far beyond that, making extensive use of 3D printing to create purpose-built trash haulers. He has created several frame systems to hold removable baskets, buckets, lights and tools. Most of the buggies use lithium power tool batteries to allow quick swapping, and the electric motors, ESCs and gearing is selected for low speed and high torque. Since the buggies spend a lot of time exposed to salt water, almost all the steel hardware on the chassis are replaced with stainless steel. To allow for one handed control, [Glenn] attached 3D printed levers to the steering knobs of the standard RC controllers, allowing steering to be done with his thumb.

We really like what [Glenn] has been doing with these buggies, and think they might be a good platforms for adding some autonomous capabilities. Add a smartphone for target following or obstacle avoidance, or some solar panels and a GPS autopilot system.

#robotshacks #beach #remotecontrol #rockcrawler #trashcollection