MIT Brings the ‘Farmville’ of Recycling to Life

Despite the fact that recycling operations can keep our planet clean and our streets waste-free, people aren't always interested in improving their eco-conscious attitude mainly because there's no fun in it.

If they are able to count their recycled items and notice their progress while comparing their results with their neighbors, the competition would make the entire process more exciting and therefore, much more popular.

The experts from MIT seem to be aware that recycling operations have to be enjoyed to actually become effective. Therefore, they launched the Greenbean recycling which turns the gathering of tonnes of cans and bottles into an interactive game which exploits every student's desire to rank first in every field of activity.

As we speak, experts have high expectations from a Reverse Vending Machine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, which collects and sorts no-longer-useful items.

The gadget is the new campus hit, according to the students who gave the innovative machine a chance.

They just had to type their phone number on a touch screen and a bar-code reader evaluates their progress, uploading the information to the Greenbean site. The students can display their eco-conscious attitude, counting on the fact that their efforts of staying green won't pass by without being noticed.

It seems that the popularity of this innovation is due to the competitiveness of students who fight for supremacy. In the near future, this green innovation has the potential to overcome the notoriety of already famous (but less useful in real life) “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars.”

A Greenbean recycling machine seems like a dream come true. At this point in time, excited that its gadget has proved to be successful, MIT tries to implement this initiative in several other locations.

After being adopted on a large scale, we can't wait to see students running up and down the street, carrying huge trash bags filled with empty bottles and spying on their neighbors to see exactly how much they have contributed to the environmental preservation.