From the City of Asheville website. To read the full story, follow the link:
About two dozen people came out to Tuesday’s official launch of the city’s new interactive recycling kiosk at the Asheville Civic Center.
The kiosk – which urges people to “be social, do good” – was funded by a grant from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and was created through a partnership between the city’s Office of Sustainability and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College’s Sustainable Technologies Program.
The kiosk also features a quiz to test users’ “green” knowledge and a video on recycling.
Users can take advantage of single-stream recycling at the kiosk, and can also take a picture in its photo booth and share it via email, Facebook and other social media.
To learn more about the Office of Sustainability, its goals, green initiatives and projects, visit: http://1.usa.gov/bKKaUZ.Read the full article
About two dozen people came out to Tuesday’s official launch of the city’s new interactive recycling kiosk at the Asheville Civic Center.
The kiosk – which urges people to “be social, do good” – was funded by a grant from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and was created through a partnership between the city’s Office of Sustainability and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College’s Sustainable Technologies Program.
The kiosk also features a quiz to test users’ “green” knowledge and a video on recycling.
Users can take advantage of single-stream recycling at the kiosk, and can also take a picture in its photo booth and share it via email, Facebook and other social media.
To learn more about the Office of Sustainability, its goals, green initiatives and projects, visit: http://1.usa.gov/bKKaUZ.Read the full article
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govtech.com published an article on the kiosk today, Nov. 4
http://www.govtech.com/technology/Interactive-Kiosk-Recycling-Asheville-NC.html
...Developed in tandem by Asheville’s Office of Sustainability and the Asheville-Buncombe (A-B) Technical Community College’s Sustainability Technologies Program, the kiosk was spawned from a contest that sought ways to make recycling more social and enjoyable.
Maggie Ullman, energy coordinator of Asheville’s Office of Sustainability, said she originally thought of a contest to make recycling more interactive after seeing an online video of a staircase transformed into a piano to encourage people to use stairs more often.
“After seeing that, I was thinking of recycling and how boring [it] is,” Ullman explained. “Not only is it boring, but ... the environmental movement has tried to guilt you into doing it, which is a further negative thing. So we wanted to create something that would make doing the right thing fun.”
Asheville received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources to fund the recycling project...
By Jeff Fobes
11/05/2011