Friday, 10 October 2008
Energy Recovery in Hampshire
"In Hampshire, Veolia Environmental Services already operates three modern Energy Recovery Facilities: this video tells the story of how the company has managed Hampshire's waste since 1996 through recycling, composting and energy recovery and shows how its Chineham Energy Recovery Facility was developed."
Check out the informative video below:
Check out the informative video below:
Recycling & Energy Recovery - Fun Learning
Getting the message across to school kids about the importance of recycling and energy recovery is a crucial initative. Clicking on the image below takes you to an interactive game designed by Veolia Environmental Services, who were awarded a long term waste management contract by Sheffield City Council.
"Eco-Star.com is an educational resource showing how waste management works, in a way that children enjoy and understand. Based around a virtual community, all the games are backed up with Did You Know? trivia and quizzes, together with teachers' notes and ideas for lesson plans with cross-curricular links."
"Eco-Star.com is an educational resource showing how waste management works, in a way that children enjoy and understand. Based around a virtual community, all the games are backed up with Did You Know? trivia and quizzes, together with teachers' notes and ideas for lesson plans with cross-curricular links."
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Foreign recycling
Strasbourg
Blue bin: Household wastes (in each buiding)
Yellow bin: Paper, cardboard,etc. (in each buiding)
Yellow bin: Paper, cardboard,etc. (in each buiding)
green container: glass (in the street)
Seville
Grey bin: Household wastes (in the street)
Grey bin: Household wastes (in the street)
Blue bin: paper, cardboard (in the street)
Green bin: glass (in the street)
I'm waiting for more informations for Vienna, Luxembourg, Lausanne, Brisbane, Florence and Montreuil Paris's suburbs.
But it seems to be more or less the same way of collecting garbages. But I think that in Switzerland recycling is more developed.
Feed The Cows
Feed the cows! ....as mentioned by India one of our previous group sessions ^_^Click the link to find out more.
Sheffield's Answer?
Good news... A new trial scheme to promote recycling.
Bad news... The bins are empty. Good news... The council must have emptied them. Bad news... No, nobody uses them. How can we encourage people to recycle? This question is pertinent to the project.
For more information see http://www.sheffieldhomes.org.uk/about-us/sheffield-homes-news/may--june-
2008/gleadless-residents-lead-the-way-in-recycling
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Awareness Poster
Below is a graphic I have been working on. Its based on facts and figures from government websites.
I have the full size PDF but I don't know where to host the file... any ideas?
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
"Receptacle for the Recyclable"
"Sure, it's goofy and looks like something out of a Pixar film, but it also integrates itself with the existing trash cans (some around the Loop and other parts of the city are different - nicer - but this scheme could be modified to fit onto those, too) and proposes reusing newspapers, over just recycling, their bundled masses poking from the green orb for easy grabbing. These are a couple good ideas that set it apart from the other schemes, ones that tended to be from the ground up and lacking in a sense of humor."*
*- Image & text source found @ http://archidose.blogspot.com/
Look Out Below!... Or not?
Visiting the Lansdowne council housing estate was certainly an interesting and revealing experience. In terms of understanding how waste disposal / recycling is, or isn't achieved, in a flatted council housing typology - our findings weren't surprising...
Looking at the photo above, you can probably easily guess that the painted cylinder running up the core area isn't structural. Indeed it is a refuse shoot, and these are located throughout the estate in similar locations. The problem?... Well despite the logical nature of the system, the capacity avaliable just isn't practical at all for typical general waste.
The next photo above shows a similar refuse shoot access point on one of the upper floors. As you can see, the openable tray designed for the tenant to insert refuse into the shoot is far too small for a typical black bin liner. Therefore it is very common that these access points are frequently littered with discarded bags. This in turn puts strain on the refuse collection workforce and makes the areas themselves unpleasant and certainly unhygienic. In some estates huge signs can be found warning of fines to those who dump their rubbish bags in this manner... The source of the problem has been clearly neglected...
There is most definitely scope here to tackle this problem, whether we might decide to focus on dealing with the idea of overloaded capacity, re-defining routes or the processes involved in such waste disposal or designing a new system for the tenants all together.
Looking at the photo above, you can probably easily guess that the painted cylinder running up the core area isn't structural. Indeed it is a refuse shoot, and these are located throughout the estate in similar locations. The problem?... Well despite the logical nature of the system, the capacity avaliable just isn't practical at all for typical general waste.
The next photo above shows a similar refuse shoot access point on one of the upper floors. As you can see, the openable tray designed for the tenant to insert refuse into the shoot is far too small for a typical black bin liner. Therefore it is very common that these access points are frequently littered with discarded bags. This in turn puts strain on the refuse collection workforce and makes the areas themselves unpleasant and certainly unhygienic. In some estates huge signs can be found warning of fines to those who dump their rubbish bags in this manner... The source of the problem has been clearly neglected...There is most definitely scope here to tackle this problem, whether we might decide to focus on dealing with the idea of overloaded capacity, re-defining routes or the processes involved in such waste disposal or designing a new system for the tenants all together.
Bin Seats
designer's own words:"...a fresh look at the tired topic of waste". What more appropriate product to target than the icon of waste - the urban garbage bin. Reusing and recycling can be a necessity or a statement, but both are driven by rethinking. A garbage bin has its own unique characteristics: it contains, it has wheels and ribs, it is stackable and thermoplastic. A chair has its own unique characteristics: it contains, it has legs, it reflects tradition and human dimensions, it is structural. We shuffled these characteristics; stretched and deformed the sides of the bin to create a seat, we sawed and bent the ribs to strengthen and emphasize forms. At times we hung on to a word or an image and melted the plastic to realize it; at times we allowed the process to take its own course. The design process reexamined the chair archetype and confronted its traditional image with the relatively inferior one of its former life as a garbage bin. On one hand is a bin - on the other, a chair. 
Perhaps this diagram requires a sequence??
1; Education (teaching those about recycling, how, why, etc.)
2; Efficiency (bring in automation systems should people fail to tackle the problems themselves) and the last resort...
3; Enforce (Punish people under the Environmental Health Act, section 46, etc.)
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