Belgium urban vacuum cleaner takes on world's litter

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IT looks like the high-tech equipment used to capture ghosts in the Ghostbusters film, with its large nozzle and tank, but this urban vacuum cleaner's targets are more down-to-earth.

The Belgian appliance - which has just hit the market in Poland, its 65th country - sucks up empty cans and bottles, trash, dog droppings and whatever other pavement litter happens to be in its way. "Even a full champagne bottle!" says inventor Christian Lange, who selected the moniker Glutton for the omnivore product that can also be seen sweeping the streets of Mecca and Paris's landmark Champs-Elysees.