Could a trash-eating compost bin solve our organic waste problem?

Bob Hendrikx’s ‘living bin’ explores how sea anemones could digest our trash—no garbage truck required.

Trash disappears when you toss it in the bin. Except it doesn’t. Some of it might get composted, some might get recycled, but most of it will end up in a double-tied plastic bag, tossed into the mouth of a sanitation truck, driven outside the city, regurgitated into a transfer station, then trucked, ferried, or trained to its final destination where it will get buried or burned. This is the reality in most big cities today, but one designer has a bold vision for how trash could be liquidated in the future.

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