Talking dirty: Swedish trash cans ‘speak’ sultry phrases after people deposit trash
It’s a trashy campaign.
Two trash cans in a Swedish city will now respond with suggestive phrases whenever someone throws something out.
“Oh, right there, yes!”, “Come back soon and do that again!” and “Mmm, a bit more to the left next time,” are among the quotes from the bins in Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city, CNN reported.
The trash cans are on a prominent bridge, the Davidshallsbron, near the city’s main shopping district, according to The Local SE. They’re part of a campaign to stop littering in Malmo, which is in far southern Sweden, across the Oresund strait from Copenhagen.
“The sentences are part of the campaign’s intention to get more people to talk about the dirtiest thing there is: littering. The stuff that ends up in our streets, squares and sea,” Marie Persson, section chief at the city’s roads department, told the Sydsvenskan newspaper. “So please go ahead and feed the bins with more rubbish…yes, just like that.”
Persson said the woman who recorded the voice messages was “a famous person” but did not identify her.
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