Local Motive - Speculative Design
Channel: Andrea S. Morales
Date: 2015-08-04

Garbage trucks are a strain to city congestion – trucks average 3.7 miles per gallon and their ubiquitous nature encourages thoughtless waste. By modifying the way goods and services move through the city, this provocation aims to question the mobility of services themselves, lowering strains on city infrastructure and reconfiguring the concept of "waste". The project leverages the internal value of personal responsibility to prompt lasting behavioral change and focuses on the hyperlocality of waste management to ensure that the stresses on the system are equally shared. 

Just as important as the interventions proposed in this project are the possible implications, both negative and positive. This speculation brings to light the various chain reactions that could result from the 3 nested design interventions in our current waste disposal system:

Garbage pipes that transport waste from building to building.
Buses that use compost as currency.
Subway cars that incinerate trash and generate energy.