Let her Litter Letters Later

On this day, in 2217, Melvin "Mel" Stanwick of Sector D, Gamma Jersey, makes the first step toward effectively ridding city streets of litter. Ms. Stanwick was able to convince the state government to replace all existing public trash cans with a new design. The design was based on the coin-funnel fundraising set-ups she had seen in the meta-malls of her youth. You know, the ones where you drop a coin in and it rolls in a spiral pattern for a minute before finally falling through to the big jar. Ms. Stanwick made the act of throwing away trash fun again (there was a brief fad in 2156).