{"73533":{"#nid":"73533","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thomas on Smart Trash Cans","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think trash cans as we know them will disappear,\u0022 says Valerie Thomas, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy, with a joint appointment in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She clarifies, \u0022Not to the extent that the chair will go walking off.\u0022 Thomas has been working on a Smart Trash concept, which she has dubbed \u0022product self-management,\u0022 that is based on the same Universal Product Code (UPC) technology used in grocery stores... She is working on a prototype of a recycling bin outfitted with a bar-code reader that would register details about products you have just discarded. \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.onearth.org\/article\/its-just-your-trash-talkin\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EONEARTH.com\u003C\/a\u003E, December 7, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-12-07 13:34:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:16","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"school of lmc","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.onearth.org\/article\/its-just-your-trash-talkin","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1135","name":"valerie thomas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}