Recycling Quiz

Just the other day I found this recycling bin at my local train station. Let’s for a second forget, that all the cans and bottles you throw in the box get mixed up again down there anyway — it’s all one big container after all — but I found it intriguing that anyone with a sound mind would put labels on it the way it was done here…

Good example of bad user experience at recycling box

So how am I to interpret this? The left two holes are for cans/tins and the third one is for bottles, or is it the second and third one? What about the rightmost one, is that a spare hole for ventilation? Or maybe if a label between two holes means the label is valid for the two then you might even be allowed to throw your cigarette stubs into the fourth hole?

I guess we’ll never know it’s just one of those many occasions where communcation completely failed.

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Jan 12, 2010 @ 06:44

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