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Danish students win prestigious Red Dot award
Disposable bin aimed at
organisers of events and
festivals
T
DROPBUCKET
WEATHER
The Copenhagen Post | cphpost.dk
WO
STUDENTS
from the Technical
University of Denmark (DTU) have won the
prestigious Red Dot Award
for their revolutionary sustainable, disposable rubbish
bin DropBucket, DR Nyheder reports. Previous winners include Apple, Adidas
and Audi.
Creates ‘nudging’ effect
MARIE Berggreen and
Heiða Nolsøe developed
the product, intended for
big events and festivals, using sustainable cardboard.
They got the idea during
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Caravan deaths
TWO MEN were found
dead on Monday in a caravan in Brande, a town in
central Jutland.
The deaths are suspected
to be the result of leaking
gas as the men slept overnight in the caravan after
attending a tractor-pulling
competition in Brande over
the weekend.
The relatives of the two
men, who had been trying
to get into contact over the
weekend, discovered the
bodies after entering the
caravan.
their first semester at DTU,
where they were tasked with
a project called ‘waste management in the city’.
“It’s a whole new way to
envision rubbish,” Berggren
told DR. “When you set it
up it creates a ‘nudging’ effect, so you help clearing
up.”
The Faroese company P/F
Royndin came in as an investor in March last year, investing 1.3 million kroner in the
company, and more than
5,000 Dropbuckets were
used at events and festivals
in 2014.
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DENMARK
Shortest hospitalisations
P
ATIENTS in Denmark are returning
home from hospital
quicker than in the rest of
western Europe.
Down from 2009
NEW FIGURES from the
national patient register
show that patients in Denmark are spending an average of just 3.5 days in hospital after being admitted.
This represents a decrease
since 2009, where hospitalisations were an average
of 4.1 days.

Ulla Astman, the chairman of the health committee in the Danish regional
organisation Danske Regioner, told Jyllands-Posten
that the reason behind the
shorter hospitalisation periods may be due to more efficient and less intrusive surgeries and procedures. “The
development in Denmark is
in many ways satisfactory,”
she said.
“The reasons for the
shorter hospitalisations is
often that the processes have
improved.”
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