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New dimension for digital cities

designed with no awareness of their ramifications; every single aspect must be sustainable and

The way we use and view our cities is changing. No longer can systems and buildings be

Even today, many city dwellers pay little attention to the consequence of something as simple as

throwing away a bottle of water. Little do they know that one bottle could travel thousands of miles

before it reaches its destination, ending up joining tonnes of other unrecycled rubbish for an indefinite

But imagine a future where this immense rubbish heap didn’t exist, and the journey that our

rubbish took was no longer out of sight and out of mind. Inhabitants would understand the ‘removal-
chain’ as much as the ‘supply-chain’, and this could help change bad habits.

2009 with a project called Trash Track, which sought to expose the challenges of waste management

and sustainability to help make 100% recycling a reality. It used hundreds of small, smart, location-
aware tags to track the journeys of different types of rubbish. The results were then revealed in a series

of real-time computer visualisations.

small number of tags we have been able to detect suspicious shipments of non-working electronic

devices from the US to Asia,” says Professor Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT SENSEseable City

Laboratory. Results are not complete yet, but Ratti says the team plans to publish them soon.

This idea was tested by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SENSEable City Lab in

The team has since focused on international waste flows, in particular related to e-waste. “With a

(http://www.bbc.com/future/sponsored/story/20140721-the-urban-conscience – acesso em 08/08/2014)

Uma solução ecológica para o lixo tem sido um dos grandes desafios para o desenvolvimento sustentável. O

texto “New dimension for digital cities” nos mostra a necessidade da remoção responsável e nos informa que

A) ainda é comum a aceitação da elaboração de projetos sem levar em conta as consequências de suas

B) nem todos os aspectos dos novos sistemas precisam ser sustentáveis.

C) moradores das cidades grandes já têm consciência das consequências do mau uso do lixo.

D) a jornada que o lixo atravessa já é, em alguns lugares, tão importante quanto à cadeia seguida pelos

E) a ideia testada pelos especialistas procurou expor os desafios do gerenciamento da remoção e da

sustentabilidade a fim de tornar a reciclagem total uma realidade.

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Respostas
E) a ideia testada pelos especialistas procurou expor os desafios do gerenciamento da remoção e da sustentabilidade a fim de tornar a reciclagem total uma realidade.