Shenea Huang
Lukas Cubirka
Stanley Darmawan
Chloe Uy
Mikee Ronquillo
Monday, October 15, 2012
PSS: Go Compost
Making your own garden compost is a lot easier than most people realise. With simple steps, you can recycle most of the organic household and garden waste and use it to enrich the garden’s soil at the same time. However, composting at home is not a popular practice and although people have tried to do it, it is hard to make it a continuous habit and sometimes, the compost bin just sits in the house without being used.
Compost is also sometimes identified with being complex and time consuming. This system proposes a compost system in an apartment complex. Using the bokashi powder instead of worms, it creates a cleaner compost without odour. It also does not have all the extra work needed for vermicomposting. The mixture does not need to be rotated and the rules to making bokashi mix is not as complicated as vermicompost.
The bins would be put inside each garbage room which residents go to on a daily basis. By putting it in a room where residents go daily, it initiates the possibility of creating a new habit. Rather than having an extra area for the compost system, which would make it as an extra task as residents would need to go to a certain area to do compost or having an extra bin in their houses where it might not be used. As the compost is managed by the apartment complex, residents need not worry about what to do with their compost when it is ready.
Video Review
Giving packaging a new life
Being born in a country that lacks awareness of recycling, it's very interesting to see different recycling cycles in the world.
Who knew that different materials could be recycled over and over again? Paper is a very good example of this. Did you know that new paper itself contains recycled paper? Toilet paper/tissues is about 60% recycled. Cardboard boxes are also made of recycled paper. And at the end of use, it can be recycled again.
I've always thought that tetrapacks are thick cardboards, but discovered that it's not as simple as that. Tetrapacks contains aluminium and polypropylene mixed with premium recycled papers. What's surprising is the capability of it to be recycled with the contained materials.
Plastic has always been advertised as a bad material for the environment. But further developments in technology allows degradable plastics to be created and in turn, more and more plastic are being recycled each day. The video shows how polystyrene is melted to create new bottles, but it may lose some of its physical properties.
Glass bottles uses less energy than producing metals and plastics and it can be recycled endlessly. It's interesting to see that molten glass is made from combining natural ingredients. However, recycling glass seems to be a tedious process.
This video gives a good insight of how designers should think about their material choice. The significance of recycling might affect the way a designer think. It could be more cost efficiency or the material may improve the design with its properties. It is also important for designers to think about the environment impact of their materials. Understanding the importance of sustainability could maximizes the product life cycle, thus reducing garbage in the landfill.
Being born in a country that lacks awareness of recycling, it's very interesting to see different recycling cycles in the world.
Who knew that different materials could be recycled over and over again? Paper is a very good example of this. Did you know that new paper itself contains recycled paper? Toilet paper/tissues is about 60% recycled. Cardboard boxes are also made of recycled paper. And at the end of use, it can be recycled again.
I've always thought that tetrapacks are thick cardboards, but discovered that it's not as simple as that. Tetrapacks contains aluminium and polypropylene mixed with premium recycled papers. What's surprising is the capability of it to be recycled with the contained materials.
Plastic has always been advertised as a bad material for the environment. But further developments in technology allows degradable plastics to be created and in turn, more and more plastic are being recycled each day. The video shows how polystyrene is melted to create new bottles, but it may lose some of its physical properties.
Glass bottles uses less energy than producing metals and plastics and it can be recycled endlessly. It's interesting to see that molten glass is made from combining natural ingredients. However, recycling glass seems to be a tedious process.
This video gives a good insight of how designers should think about their material choice. The significance of recycling might affect the way a designer think. It could be more cost efficiency or the material may improve the design with its properties. It is also important for designers to think about the environment impact of their materials. Understanding the importance of sustainability could maximizes the product life cycle, thus reducing garbage in the landfill.
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