In Kharkov there was an unusual machine that attracted the attention of passers-by

Used plastic bottles can be exchanged for Souvenirs.

In the courtyard of an apartment building on the street is Sickle, 4-a, near the metro station “Scientific”, there was an unusual machine, which immediately attracted the attention of passers-by. Few days people watched with interest as the machine gives favors in exchange for used plastic bottles. Is thus indifferent to the Kharkiv want to teach your countrymen to the proper sorting of garbage, and maybe soon these machines will be the city’s common.

The developers know-how, as it turned out, a long toil to accustom Ukrainians to sorting the garbage. Kharkiv they are familiar, for example, in stylish containers labeled “For clean city”, which can be found in the center. However, the initiators came to the conclusion that by themselves, the containers carry no information and does not predispose people to sort the waste. Because of the light and a prototype of the machine for collecting plastic bottles.

“We just want to inform people with the help of some posters and stickers and encourage to receive symbolic prizes that are pleasing to children, and will be a pleasant and adults”, — told the “Today” representative of the developer Valery Svetlichny.

Yet for discarded plastic child can receive a calendar, magnet or car. In the future, if the project is to develop machine guns will drop a card with a certain amount of points, which can later be redeemed for prizes in the online store, the development of which is already engaged.

Prototype. In the future, machines would sweep the city.

Themselves are in Kharkov, and the idea is unique, which has prompted the makers to its patenting. “After running the first sample we have new constructive solutions, in particular for protection against vandalism, says svitlychnyi. — In General, the project is at the initial stage, the main task now is to decide definitively with constructive, with the economy and see how people react”.

According to Valery, it is possible that such machines will appear in other cities of Ukraine, but only after the developers will apply for a patent. At the moment, how filled machine, the developers regularly monitor and pick out recyclables. How many have managed to collect plastic, they are still not counted.

Environmentalists say: the mass introduction of such developments for separate waste collection is a good initiative, which will allow the city to keep pace with the major cities of Europe.

“The whole world went this way, and we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. The system should be not only penalties for illegal rubbish dumping, but the reward for correct, — says the activist of the “Green front” Oleg Peregon. In the USA, for example, for children even produce a special coloring, where you need to find a way each type of waste to the trash. Kindergarten people accustomed to the fact that the paper should be put to paper, and only glass to glass”.

However, the information campaign waged in Kharkov, the stretch is insufficient, offering to divide all the containers in the city depending on the type of waste.

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