Why cities didn’t deveop a pipe network to collect rubbish, like there are sewerage and water pipes?
Economics and physics. Rubbish isn't a fluid. Sewage and water mostly are, with floaty or clumpy bits in the former.
The Short Answer
Economics and physics. Rubbish isn't a fluid. Sewage and water mostly are, with floaty or clumpy bits in the former. So you can use gravity and pumps to quite inexpensively make them "flow" from the source to the destination. Further, rubbish is very much irregularly shaped, with sticks and poles and things that can't bend at all around corners. So even if you could somehow construct some expensive technology that allowed you to convey your trash through them, your pipes would get jammed up at every curve or bend all of the time.
Analysis
Key Concepts: Rubbish, bend, economics
This explanation focuses on rubbish, bend, economics and spans 93 words across 6 sentences. At 43% above the average Everyday Life explanation (65 words), this is one of the more thorough answers in this category, reflecting the complexity of the underlying question.
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The explanation opens with: “Economics and physics.” It then elaboratesultimately building toward a complete picture across 6 connected points.
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Is there a simple explanation for why why cities didn't deveop a pipe network to collect rubbish, like there are sewerage and water pipes?
Economics and physics. Rubbish isn't a fluid. Sewage and water mostly are, with floaty or clumpy bits in the former. So you can use gravity and pumps to quite inexpensively make them "flow" from the source to the destination. Further, rubbish is…
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This is one of the most thorough answer at 93 words, ranked #124 of 500 Everyday Life questions by depth. The key concepts covered are rubbish, bend, economics.
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