{"id":271,"date":"2005-10-22T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:55:43","slug":"trash-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/10\/22\/trash-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2005\/TECH\/09\/27\/spark.rubbish\/story.rubbish.jpg\" alt=\"talking trash\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Toronto is testing <a target=blank href=\"http:\/\/www.publicspace.ca\/monster.htm\">Monster Garbage Cans<\/a> that look like multiplex theatres, Berlin is installing cute (ad-free, orange, solar-powered) <a target=blank href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/09\/27\/spark.rubbish\/index.html\">talking trash cans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAgency spokesman Thomas Klockner told CNN the bins are becoming increasingly popular &#8212; although sometimes people are surprised to hear the bin talk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a surprise because you don&#8217;t expect a waste bin to talk. If you put something inside and it says, &#8216;thank you&#8217; or &#8216;welcome to Berlin,&#8217; you are amazed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then you start talking with your friends about it, &#8216;Hey, I passed by a waste bin and it talked to me,&#8217; so people get the idea of using these waste bins into their minds in a funny way.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Toronto is testing Monster Garbage Cans that look like multiplex theatres, Berlin is installing cute (ad-free, orange, solar-powered) talking trash cans: Agency spokesman Thomas Klockner told CNN the bins are becoming increasingly popular &#8212; although sometimes people are surprised to hear the bin talk. &#8220;It is a surprise because you don&#8217;t expect a waste<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/10\/22\/trash-talking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Trash Talking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759,15,2],"tags":[11,891,532,893,21,10,892,19],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-media","category-politics","tag-ad-creep","tag-agency-spokesman","tag-berlin","tag-cnn","tag-other-cities","tag-public-enemy","tag-thomas-klockner","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trash Talking - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/10\/22\/trash-talking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trash Talking - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While Toronto is testing Monster Garbage Cans that look like multiplex theatres, Berlin is installing cute (ad-free, orange, solar-powered) talking trash cans: Agency spokesman Thomas Klockner told CNN the bins are becoming increasingly popular &#8212; 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