Reuse as a Sustainability Strategy Week 6: Finding Your Repurpose Joy Scrogum, ISTC October 18, 2017 CCNet—Illini Gadget Garage Tour • Oct. 19 at noon • Presentation first at ISTC, 1 Hazelwood Drive (I’m practicing the Lightning Talk I’ll be giving later that day and answering questions) • Then we’ll walk over to the IGG workshop • See https://www.facebook.com/eve nts/1861623217446017 http://www.wastedive.com/news/newly- signed-california-food-recovery-bill-seen- as-model-for-other-states/506956/ "Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value. Upcycling is the opposite of downcycling, which is the other half of the recycling process. Downcycling involves converting materials and products into new materials of lesser quality. Most recycling involves converting or extracting useful materials from a product and creating a different product or material.“ -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downcycling.
'As we have noted, most recycling is actually downcycling; it reduces the quality of a material over time. When plastics other than those found in soda and water bottles are recycled, they are mixed with different plastics to produce a hybrid of lower quality, which is then molded into something amorphous and cheap, such as a park bench or a speed bump... Aluminum is another valuable but constantly downcycled material. The typical soda can consists of two kinds of aluminum: the walls are composed of aluminum, manganese alloy with some magnesium, plus coatings and paint, while the harder top is aluminum magnesium alloy. In conventional recycling these materials are melted together, resulting in a weaker—and less useful—product.' --McDonough & Braungart—Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Repurposing is the process by which an object with one use value is transformed or redeployed as an object with an alternative use value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repurposing
Use something for a purpose other than the originally intended one. Minimal transformation (not as extensive as during recycling), if any. https://www.recyclart.org/ Reuse Art & Crafts, aka Creative Reuse • Pinterest • http://www.instructables.com • https://makezine.com/ • Ten Thousand Villages, Uncommon Goods, Etsy (for shopping) • IDEA Store, Hatch Creative Reuse Art Festival ISTC Student Waste Sculpture
Hursh Hazari & Nahid Akram WEEE Man • WEEE Directive—Waste electrical and electronic products • Completed in 2006 by Paul Bonomini • Weighs 3.3 metric tons (7275.25 lbs.), 7 meters tall (22.9659 ft.). Steel framework. • Represents WEEE disposed of by average Brit in lifetime • Was displayed in London, now remains at Eden Project in Cornwall • http://www.weeeman.org/ht ml/impact/facts.html http://www.weeeman.org/html/press/gallery.html Brian Mock https://www.brianmock.com/ Scrap Arts Music http://scrapartsmusic.com/
Chad Dunn –’Recycled Rhythms’ Sonified Sustainability Festival at Krannert https://www.facebook.com/sonifiedsustain/ Ascendent Instruments (Potomac, IL; Tony Taylor): https://www.facebook.com/ascendentinstco/ http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com/ Adaptive Reuse of Buildings
Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, CA Tate Gallery, London
http://plantchicago.org/201 6/02/12/what-is-the-plant/
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-chicagos-quirkiest-companies-sprouted-circular- economy Freight Farms: https://www.freightfarms.com/ http://www.greenlunchroom.org/docu ments/Graeme-Marcoux-slides.pdf http://www.gatewaycontaine rsales.com.au/temporary- shipping-container-homes- for-refugees/ (from a container company)
Container Housing
See https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable http://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522903405/hungary-sends- -product-design/whats-wrong-shipping- refugees-to-shipping-container-camp-along-serbian-border container-housing-one-architect-says- everything.html for problems with the idea. Next week—Repackaged: Packaging with Reuse in Mind
Slides will be on course site within a few days.
Questions????
Don’t hesitate to reach out: Joy Scrogum, [email protected] Sustainability Specialist, ISTC