Do you hang on to useful stuff you find? I have hats, caps, hoodies, cash (including a $100 bill), gift cards (also $100), keychains, a little bean sprout hair clip I attached to my hat...

Today I found a "Fuelrod" rechargable portable battery dealie. 🔋

Hi everyone! I’m working on a project for my Design and Technology Major Design Project, in which I am designing an autonomous trash-sorting bin for public spaces like parks and beaches. The bin will compact waste and even operate on solar power. It’s a step towards cleaner public spaces and better recycling habits.

I don't usually like to promote things, but I’d love your input on my survey to make sure it meets real needs. If you have a few minutes, please fill out this quick survey: https://forms.gle/LDmzvx8hF3cn81YB6

Your feedback will directly help me in my project (and who knows, maybe even implement it). Thanks so much for supporting sustainable innovation!

(Repost from three years ago, but it's a great story.) "Hayao Miyazaki asked, while picking up trash on street, for opinions on 'Demon Slayer'"

Q: Box-office sales for "Demon Slayer" are approaching that of "Spirited Away." What’s your view on that?

Miyazaki: “Well, I don’t think it has anything to do with me. It’s better if people don’t concern themselves with things like box-office records and concentrate on making their workplaces harmonious instead. It’s fine as long as you work hard on what you’re making.”

Q: Have you watched "Demon Slayer?"

Miyazaki: “No I haven’t. I rarely watch other things. I don’t watch TV, I don’t watch movies. I’m a retired old man picking up trash.”

Q: Some fans will be upset if "Spirited Away" doesn’t retain its historic number one spot.

Miyazaki: “That sort of thing isn’t worth worrying about. There’s always inflation in the world. Right now, I have to pick up trash…”

Q: So…you’re currently working on "How Do You Live?" (The production was announced in 2017). Is it all going well?

Miyazaki: “I’m doing it. I’m doing it while retired. You should direct any questions about that to Toho [Japanese film production and distribution company]. Because I don’t know everything about it. I have to go around and pick up trash, so…”

So I’ve been having this issue with a New York City compost that they put on the corner of my property in New York City, and there were no notices or information given that they would be installing it at the corner of my property and ever since we’ve been having to deal with dumping issues because people have to use a QR code to open it and it’s for compost only not garbage, so people just dumped their garbage next to it and sometimes they dump other things like bags of clothes other bags of garbage and we never had this issue before the compost was put there. I wrote numerous emails & calls to 311 in the compost department and the first time they got back to me they said that people are using it and it’s in a good location, however I told them that for as many people that are using it correctly there’s another half of people that aren’t using it correctly and it’s causing more issues for me as a property owner to clean up the mess that people make - their response was that New York City owners are required to clean in front of their property, which yes, we already do but now they created an additional problem with this compost being there .

There’s also a city building public school and public park across the street that would benefit from it being there. any thoughts about trying to fix this issue? Has anyone ever dealt with something like this with the city or in their town? What can I do? I’m tired of cleaning up extra garbage on top of the regular garbage that people just toss out the window of their cars passing this is a nightmare.

I live in Schenectady, NY, and sometimes go for a walk around my local park. I noticed that it was getting trashier, and I decided to do something in an arena that I could actually control. It’s not much, but this is my first time doing this. I really enjoyed it, with my best find being an used jimmy hat!