This Norwegian city came up with a brilliant way to deal with trash

Bergen, Norway is a beautiful place, but there’s something more lying beneath the surface. The almost thousand-year-old city has become home to one of the most high-tech trash systems in the world. Instead of relying on gas-guzzling garbage trucks to pick up waste, residents dump their garbage in vacuum tubes that suck the trash out of the city.

A report from The Washington Post on the development claims that the system sucks garbage out of the city with the “force of a half a million household...