Residents will put rubbish in chutes leading to underground chambers and they will be emptied only when they are full GEOFF ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHYThey are the blight of urban landscapes, but now a housing development is to banish the wheelie bin. A sensor notifies the council when the underground chamber is full. The steel chutes are set into the pavement at the University of Cambridge’s Eddington development. The system will eliminate the need for 9,000 wheelie bins, with 450 chambers at 155 locations. Underground bins are common in the Netherlands and Sweden and Edinburgh installed them ten years ago after complaints…

Source: The Times September 13, 2017 23:03 UTC