Ignorance, Illiteracy, Apathy or Bad Design?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 06. 4.08
Photo used with permission of Steven de Sousa. Bigger image here.
So here are three separate bins for litter, bottles and paper; as is typical of the Toronto Transit Commission, the graphics are lousy and the titles nonsensical (why not say bottles or paper?) I suppose one should be happy that people are at least using it. We will repeat the question asked by Steven de Sousa on BlogTO: "What are your thoughts on the commonly observed yet rarely addressed problem of recycling sorting (not just on the TTC)? Is it a problem of illiteracy, apathy, or ignorance?" (I added bad design). ::Blog TO
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