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Michael Under the category "Inventions that deserved the Nobel Prize but never received one," today we present the so-called "Garbage Chute." Who hasn't cursed when they had to take out the stinking trash in the middle of the night? In America, you don't have to go down the stairs to the garage or the yard for this; you simply open a hatch that reveals a chute where the waste swiftly travels downward.
In illustration 1, you can see a classic implementation of the system on our neighbor's house. There, the pipe is attached to the exterior wall of the house (the house was probably 'retrofitted') and leads directly into a classic garbage bin located in the courtyard below.
Convenience is a big deal in America. So much so that our next door neighbor often doesn't even make it to the trash chute in our building. Sometimes he hangs the garbage bag on his doorknob, in order to take it to the chute in the morning. It's hard to believe!
Greetings from the land of the laziest people in the world:
Angelika und Michael
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