Waste not, want not

As pedestrian unhappiness about the onslaught of electric kick scooter fleets is mounting, Parisians have taken to throwing the scooters into the Seine to be rid of them. Now a startup called Guppy has emerged to retrieve the submerged scooters using magnets.

That’s not all that Guppy managed to dredge up from the Seine in their first outings – the tweet below shows just how many various traffic items wind up in the French capital’s river.

Voici les résultats de la pêche du jour :
58 trottinettes 🛴
11 vélos 🚲
6 barrières 🚧
2 scooters 🛵
et d’autres objets insolites comme…1 four !
Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui sont venus aujourd’hui pour participer ou pour nous encourager. 😁 pic.twitter.com/huXhSCVOVq

— Guppy (@guppy_earth) June 2, 2019

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