Styling Binners

A cart specially designed for urban bottle salvagers—binners—are being tested here in Vancouver. It is a good idea since the cart is better looking, quieter and more efficient. Sounds like it is something that can make everyone, well, not exactly happy, but happier. Merchants do not have to complain about ‘bums’ making their street ugly. Recyclers can be more efficient and quiet. The binners lives can be just a little easier. And for the rest of us, our environment would improve. The only problem seems to cost. The designers estimate the price for the carts to be about 300. That is quite a lot bottles, 3000 to be exact. They figure that one of the ways to help pay for the carts is advertisements on the carts. This can be an interesting sight—while the binner is digging through garbage tanks for discard beer cans, his cart is advertising Pol Roger! That probably will have happen with champagne but major soda brands would do too. I hope this advertisement idea will come to be and not only pay for the carts but also help the binners’ income. After all they provide an essential service in our cities and they should get paid better.