Popular Mechanics01 sat in on Tuesday's (February 7) discussion at Studio-X New York about the future of trash systems, which included debate about the feasiblity of a High Line pneumatic trash tube plant and the meaning of "smart garbage". With Juliette Spertus (architect and curator of FAST TRASH02), Benjamin Miller (author of Fat of the Land: The Garbage Of New York-The Last Two Hundred Years03), Vishaan Chakrabarti (Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate at Columbia University and former senior adviser to the Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Planning Commission on all urban planning issues throughout Manhattan), Claire Weisz (Co-Executive Director of The Design Trust for Public Space04 and founding partner of WXY Architecture + Urban Design, the firm working on the design for the city's new Hugo Neu Marine Terminal Recycling Facility), and Marcia Byrstryn (President of the New York League of Conservation Voters05).