UBC Okanagan engineering students hope to stop donation-bin deaths

The death of a woman trapped in a clothing donation bin last summer has prompted UBC engineering students to work on solutions to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.
On Sunday, students of Ray Taheri, a senior instructor at the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus, will present models of their designs for better bins at an annual competition. Advocates for the homeless and poor have in recent years been calling for change to the metal bins after a string of deaths of peo