Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Make the company liable and they’ll come up with their own way to prevent or mitigate this. Their business model is causing this, it’s their job to fix it.

  Fine them a punitive amount per occurrence. It’s probably not cheap to discover and we probably only find a fraction of them so the cost must consider that. It must also be high enough to either incentivize a fix or fully cover repair.

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• Ymer@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bikes like that promote some of the worst aspects of bicycle culture - inexperienced riders doing high speed with zero regard for where they park once the ride is over. Obviously the bikes shouldn’t be tossed in the water, the entire business model should be tossed out.

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• Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lets also address the pollution caused by road runoff.

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  • xzot746@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And all the untreated waste that gets dumped into the rivers as well.

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    • Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is being addressed 👍🏼

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• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Install 360° cameras, film those assholes and make them pay for retrieval.

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  • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuck that. Lime’s business model promotes this sort of littering. These things are left in the most random places and it’s a hazard. Just pull them off the streets entirely.

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  • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The problem is it’s done by folk that don’t pay and probably covering their face. The fact the company thinks it’s cheaper to lose bikes than pay rent for land for stations to secure the bikes between customers is the problem. They don’t care.

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    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The modern bikes need an account with valid fiscal info to unlock. There is no way to “not pay”.

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  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sounds nice until you think about the implications for everyone that doesn’t vandalize or destroy these bikes. I’m most certainly not going to rent one if it has 360° surveillance capabilities.

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    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The recording nedds to be saved only when the accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So constant 360° surveillance?

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    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You only need to save the recording when the bike’s accelerometer detects the bike being thrown.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …or have decent security on them that can’t be broken by a 12yo.

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• roserose56@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We had same thing in Greece but with scooters. People used to steal them and throw them in the sea. Crazy.

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Drago? Drago? Did you get away safely from that Lime Lawyer?

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