{"id":665820,"date":"2010-02-12T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1293\/street-lamps-powered-by-garbage.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:10:00","slug":"street-lamps-powered-by-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/665820","title":{"rendered":"Street lamps powered by garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"compost-lamp\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/compost-lamp.jpg?resize=468%2C183\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A cool new design concept marries composting with clean energy:\u00a0 garbage-powered <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/efficiency\/2394\">street lamps<\/a>.\u00a0 The Gaon Street Light from designer Haneum Lee keeps food waste out of landfills while keeping streets illuminated.<\/p>\n<p>The street lamp features a garbage bin at its base where food products can be deposited.\u00a0 The waste is then composted and the methane from the waste powers the lamp at the top.<\/p>\n<p>There would need to be controls in place to make sure that only food waste made it into the compost bin.\u00a0 If that were worked out, it would be a nice idea for city parks or other areas where people take their food outside.\u00a0 The design gets us thinking about what all could be powered by our waste and that&#8217;s a success in itself.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2009\/11\/13\/trash-powered-street-lamp\/\">Inhabitat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/livv1d7qjma\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool new design concept marries composting with clean energy:\u00a0 garbage-powered street lamps.\u00a0 The Gaon Street Light from designer Haneum Lee keeps food waste out of landfills while keeping streets illuminated. The street lamp features a garbage bin at its base where food products can be deposited.\u00a0 The waste is then composted and the methane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Nd2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}