Gluttony has long been thought of in a negative way. No wonder, take a look at how it's defined:
glutton: ˈ
- an excessively greedy eater.
- synonyms: overeater, gorger, binge eater, big eater, pig, greedy pig, hog
Don't Let Pre-Conceived Notions Fool You!
A few days ago I had the pleasure of acting as tour guide to a young couple who were visiting me from Ontario, Canada. While exploring the city of Lugano they both marveled its cleanliness.
I'm sorry to say that this is not because there are no litter bugs in the area. The streets are regularly strewn with countless cigarette butts, jettisoned wrappers, and bits and scraps of every nature! All disgusting, but that's a story for another day!
Lugano is clean because it is swept clean each and every day by a small crew of dedicated and unsung heroes. Since last year this crew has a new weapon and we should all be thrilled.
Not a speck of dirt to see anywhere in the city of Lugano thanks to this glutton! No not him, it!
Enter The Good Glutton That Should be Admired!
This super electric machine is small, nimble, almost silent and able to suck up virtually anything it "sees"! I watched the operator in amazement as he was able to extract butts and scraps from every nook and cranny along his cobbled route.
Years ago I'd seen a much less efficient and very noisy gas powered street vacuum but this thing takes it to another level!
The Street Cleaner was more than happy to give me a demonstration of how this Glutton works! Impressive!
Advantages of The Glutton
- Greater efficiency for cleaning teams (Lugano is cleaner than ever with these things)
- Environmentally friendly with the electric version being almost silent!
- Removes more dirt than sweeping without causing airborne dust!
- With its narrow width (0.75m), the Glutton can go more or less anywhere
- 12 hours of autonomy in normal usage for the Glutton Electric
- An ambidextrous suction pipe means no prejudice against left handers!
- Designed for maximum user comfort
- A flashing light and other safety lights ensure visibility
- The suction strength enables the user to avoid any contact with refuse
- Cleaning personnel are motivated and feel more valued in their work.
This Video is Actually Very Impressive!
The Street Cleaner That I Interviewed Today Was Thrilled!
While speaking with the man that I saw using the machine today he told me that it has made his job a lot easier and that he found it simple to use and very efficient. I told him what my tourist friend had said about Lugano being so clean and that I appreciate the great work that he is doing. He was grinning from ear to ear!
The next time that you see or hear the word glutton don't jump to conclusions, it might just be a very good thing!
What do You Think?
- Are you impressed with this machine?
- Are they in use where you live?
- Would we even need them if people would stop littering?
I hope that you enjoyed this article about "Is Gluttony Always a Bad Thing?"
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
Remember, if you upvote my post and leave a comment I will do my best to upvote it with some of my almost 43,000 Steem Power!
This is the very first time I see this revolutionary machine, what a successful enterprise! Wow!!!
Thanks for sharing this information as I will be able to pass it along to people working for cities here and there. As the street cleaner you interviewed was such an excellent witness to the potential and power of this machine, I think we should let the cities of the world know about this product and market it to them a.s.a.p.!
Thanks again for this article and for giving gluttony a good name. Namaste :)
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Yes it really is a nice machine but of course the really solution would be to stop throwing stuff on the ground! Blessing to you!
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You bet!
Namaste :)
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It is a very impressive machine and it's nice to know your local Lugano street cleaning team is keeping things sharp.
I haven't seen any of these machines in use but street cleaning machines aren't something that's always top-of-mind for me so the likelihood that I've seen one and didn't notice is fairly high given the fact that they are shipped to 40 or so countries and are used in many cities.
It seems like even if people stopped littering a machine like this would still be useful for natural, organic debris that would collect. Leaves always will fall from trees and the wind will blow them to where they build up and need removal. Perhaps the need would be less but I think the Glutton would still be in wide use.
@oldman28 mentioned automated street cleaners...Perhaps some exist already but if not maybe Glutton can marry their current model with the type of tech Husqvarna uses in their auto-mowers which are so popular here in Scandinavia:
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What an interesting product this one is as well! As you say, the combo of both machine would be super powerful, thanks for sharing, namaste :)
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Thanks for showing this to me and for your good idea.
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WOW, that's a lovely tiny creature! I think most machines will embrace a smart technology to operate robotically over time. But for the time being, glutton seems to be a great option.
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The video mentions that "80% of the devices are exported to 40 countries" - so it must be working, if so many people are trying to get their hands on one!
It is impressive that it can clean up such big stuff - a half full 2 liter bottle, that's nuts. This is strangely exciting to me. I think this is the way to keep a clean city - not to avoid the mess entirely, that's just impossible, but to have really powerful methods to proactively clean it up.
Even in human life, gluttony isn't so bad. I give myself every Saturday to just be a total glutton and eat all kinds of junk food.
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Great comment and I need to give you a bonus for watching the video! I love your point about what you do Saturday!!!!
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Amazing machine and suction power!!!!
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Fabulous machine and video!!thanks for sharing...
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It is pretty cool!
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I guess the combination of Fart and Glutton keeps a good balance in the city ! One pollutes and one cleans hehe
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Very funny! Thanks for the laugh!
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Haha my pleasure :)
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Actually this is surprising dear friend @ kus-knee, that good infrastructure that has the municipality, this is a great technological machine, this would come very well in my country, although the cleaning is a matter of culture, here after the steps of the collector are pulling trash.
excellent post dear friend, congratulations on the find.
I wish you a beautiful day.
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Thanks for the visit. I agree that to a certain extent cleaning is matter of culture.
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Fantastic machine! I'm really impressed with it, but here in my city they are not in use. We have some tiny car similar to this, but they don't clean the streets every day, just 2-3 times at week:
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Thanks for showing me what is in use where you live!
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On this machine is really a miracle! But we must give credit to the people who run this car, they are also doing a great job. And though correctly the Russian proverb "purely not where sweep, and where don't litter" but no cleaners on the streets all the same it would be messy.
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Yes you are correct!
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@kus-knee - oh my goodness, this is a good invention & very useful unit for cleaning matters. cleaners are doing a excellent job Sir. no one recognized it. Love your post Sir. Therefore, I wish to ReSteem your post.
+W+ [UpVoted & ReSteemed]
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Thanks so much for your visit and your support!
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fantastic post @kus-knee, well that machine is simply awesome, the one of the biggest advantage of this machine that it sucks every thing, if one's do the cleaning with broom the dust really flying all over the place and that just really hurt lungs and also creates breathing problems, so that machine also sucks dust particles in air to the air remains fresh and healthy for breath, well that machine is available in my country but it available in most developed areas, thanks for sharing
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The dust is a big factor in making this machine exceptional!
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They have ones that guys drive on here.
I have a glutton. Not as cool as yours though. It has 6.0 peak h.p. and can suck up a tennis ball!!!
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Nice one @old-guy-photos! Do you use it for your work shop?
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Yes I do and it works wonderful! Only thing is you have to be careful of the nozzle. It is stronger than one might think!
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Ciao Old Dog! Settimana scorsa l'ho visto anch'io per la prima volta... impressionante e super-efficiente!
Salutoni
(sorry no english today... my brain is in "tilt")
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Per me va bene anche Italiano e ti capisco bene. Ogni tanto si deve staccare la spina!
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From the video you can see it's a very smartly designed machine, like they thought about a lot of details. Cleaning a city it may be satisfying sometimes especially if someone makes you a compliment, but as you poninted out we don't have to forget that it's even an hard job! So everything that simplify cleaner's job is welcome and deserved!
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Thanks for your fine comment as you raise a number of good points!
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In germany we have motor-vaccum cleaners which a horrible loud.
Upvoted and resteemed :-)
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Yes I've seen those. These things are almost silent but still so powerful!
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@kus-knee,
Actually this is awesome! I saw people (employees from cleaning services) are working hard to clean roads and it makes dust as well. So, this is a great solution for it! And also it seems easy to use :D A very useful machine and actually didn't see this before!
Yes we need this machine if people would stop littering either. Coz litters are not only human activities, Sometimes trees and dusty can be litter as well. So I believe if people wish to stop lettering we won't use those machines for some extend. But we need them too!
Thank you very much for sharing such great experience with us! Really appreciate your effort!
Cheers~
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You make some very good observations!
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The sad thing about this machine may be, the next version will probably be driver-less. Like the robot farming tractors being promised. Bob the builder era is getting closer and closer so what is everyone going to do for a living? Fixing robots?
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Robots can't do creativity. That remains an (above)human trait.
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So true!
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We do need to have some balance.
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It is a very good "thing" It would even be better if every one take his responsibility for a clean environment. It starts inside the house, on the Streets, in the air, ocean,... everywhere !
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So true!!!
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I need one for my living room xD
Nice post my friend!
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That sounds frightening! hahaha!
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Such machines will always be relevant. Only by the fact that people will never stop littering.
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Sad but true!
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Just saw the video and that was pretty impressive indeed this is going to be great
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Yes the video really shows what the Glutton can do!
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Such a machine to clean, probably, a pleasure :)
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works well and fun to use!
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A great machine, even nicely designed. Street Cleaner In Croatia has a orange uniform, broom and bicycle with mini trailer...
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Yes that's how they did it here as well up until one year ago!
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great post ...thanks for your advise in the video...i like this video ...
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Glad you liked it!
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Littering is very big problem all over the world..
I think this will be great solution..
Nice effort the old dog..
Upvoted..
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I really wish that people would stop littering. We need to lead by example!
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Wow how cool is that ?! I'm Almost in disbelief that it's able to keep the whole city clean ! Truly an amazing invention :) how big is the city of Lugano and where is it located? I've never heard of it somehow.. anyway awesome article and info ! I need one of those for my house alone 😂😂😂.. I'm the real glutton haha! Hope all is well @kus-knee !!
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Lugano is in the Southern part of Switzerland. Population: 54,437. Maybe when Steem reaches $100.00 you can buy one for your home!
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Impressed is a big word ^^ and no, I never heard of it before. It's a good thing though as a cleaners job is usually underpaid already... I think it's just a matter of time till machines can take the cleaning job over entirely.
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Cleaners job underpaid and under appreciated!
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Wowww.... I have never seen such cleaning machines! We don't have it here(( What a pity!
It would help a lot our street workers cos here most of cleaners are over 60 years old. Can you imagine that?
They manually sweep the streets with brooms. It's a really hard work.
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Yes they did it with brooms here up until last year! Tough job!
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Hope one day Indian government will provide such machines to municipality too.Works become easy using such machine.I have seen some small truck like sweeping machine too which they use to clean roads.
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It is a big help in keeping things beautiful!
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East or West Glutton is simply the best for cleaning.
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It sure look that way!
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Because of human activities, there is an environment. This video machine will generate an eco-friendly connection. it is valuable post.
tanks @kus-knee
have a great day.
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Thanks for having a look!
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I want one of these! It would make clean up so much easier on the homestead! That fact that it is electric is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Upvoted and resteemed.
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It is very nifty!
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please help me ^^
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I am upvoting your comment because I like to help people but the way to have success on Steemit is by making meaningful comments. I would not recommend writing please help me.
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Daily Learn some new from your post. Love to read it.
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Thanks so much!
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OMG, it's wonderful, thanks to scientific research, which results is such a beautiful products.But in our country due to over population unhygienic conditions prevail everywhere in the cities. If the government project its purchase, then it will be great help. Thanks for sharing such an amazing things, yes it is over eating products,but very important and oppressive one. Have a very good day friend happy steeming.
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Happy Steeming to you too!
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Thanks from my heart my dear friend, Happy steeming
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I agree with the message of your lovely image!
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Wow! That thing looks pretty amazing. It sucked up a can in that video! My kids would love to play with and pull that thing around. As a matter of fact, I'd love to have one too. My akita is shedding and there is a ton of hair around the house! I like that it is electric and silent. Looks like a great invention. We need those in Panama!
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I'm sure that your kid's would love it!
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amigo #resteemia at your service
a valuable alternative for cleaning litters. impressive experience & nice sharing @kus-knee
ReSteemia
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Thanks so much!
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It is a very useful device, it is very hygienic for those who need to clean the streets of the city. very interesting, i think its great machine for city centres oldtowns and etc. thank you!
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Yes it is ideal for city centers!
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Here in the uk we still just have manual road sweepers!
That machine looks great. And thank goodness for the workers keeping your cities so beautiful.
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Yes they do a great job!
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wow, what a good machine, wish i have one !!
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Hhahaha me too!
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Yes....wonderful post with great idea by "The old dog"...
@kus-knee I think this machine is very useful to us...clean our ways and protect our nature...
Good idea and great work...
Upvoted...
Cheers~~~
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It really does do a good job!
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Awesome cleaner bro nice
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Yes it is!
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I wish our town had one of those. Perhaps it will become more common over time.
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Let's hope!
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that is one amazing machine.
there is no such machine yet here in Indonesia.
and as you said how much sophisticated machine without human effort in keeping the invironmnet clean would not not succed.
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Yes the man still has a big job to do!
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The machine is good. Works well in cleaning. cleaners are doing a excellent. Thank you for sharing
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Yes they are doing a great job!
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thanks so much! you have a nice day!
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nice videoo....thanks for post
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Congratulations @kus-knee
MinnowsPower listed your post "The Old Dog Asks: Is Gluttony Always a Bad Thing? Have You Hugged a Street Cleaner Today?" as one of the top 20 posts of the day...!!!
Life experience shared in details and open a space for a wonderful eco friendly discussion.
100% Upvoted by @MinnowsPower
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you seems to be stuck on the loop.
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All the respect to people who keep the streets clean :)
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Congratulations @kus-knee!
Your post was mentioned in the hit parade in the following category:
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Truly marvelous!
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Nice Video..........
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Glutton is the know-how in the field of solid waste treatment and disposal! Thanks @kus-knee, for the very interesting. valuable and relevant. as for the city of Lviv in Ukraine information. We have big problems with the export and processing of garbage!
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Hello, friend))) At school, I was taught such a rule "Purely not where they clean, but where they do not litter"))) Thanks for the interesting post))) I saw your excellent sense of humor moments.
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Lugano is a city in Switzerland? Switzerland is an example for Ukraine! Unfortunately, the situation with garbage in Lviv is very sad! We are experiencing a crisis
Your video is exciting. Thanks for sharing, my friend @kus-knee !
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