Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Swiss bombproof bin tackles Paris trash / SwissInfo, 25 May 2006

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Daniele Mariani
"A small Zurich-based firm has developed a rubbish bin that considerably reduces the effects of an explosion. Zurich-based BrĂ¼co has invented a bombproof rubbish bin – the "Trashshark", so called because its design is suggestive of a shark's head.The new design has already passed its first test. An explosives expert at armasuisse – the Swiss army agency which purchases and assesses military equipment – set off a hand-grenade inside one of the rubbish bins. As expected, the bin split in two, but it was effective in absorbing almost all 1,700 fragments of the hand-grenade.."