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Recycling bins
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Recycling bins, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Bin symbol for glass is a broken wineglass, confusing about whether broken glass is accepted2024-04-08
- Bins give no indication of what is acceptable to recycle, so people can't tell what goes in2020-10-08
- Unclear which items go in recycling versus compost, and which plastics are accepted2018-06-20
- Unclear which materials go in paper, cardboard or can recycling streams2017-09-17