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We support our clients in the assessment of materials and components in their existing buildings.
Our service ranges from the digitization as material passports, cost-effective procurement until deconstruction starts and measurable savings of costs, waste and GHG emissions.
We support our clients in the assessment of materials and components in their existing buildings.
Our service ranges from the digitization as material passports, cost-effective procurement until deconstruction starts and measurable savings of costs, waste and GHG emissions.
Fundació Formació i Treball, la Fundació CHM Salut Mental i el Departament d'Arts Visuals i Disseny de la Universitat de Barcelona, col·laboren al projecte de reutilització, reciclatge i economia circular 'Parelles Creatives - Trastos vells'.
Convertir soles de sabata, plàstics que provenen de restes de joguines o roba usada, en productes innovadors, com ara safates de cultiu hidropònic, un rascador de gats, un tendal o un gronxador, no és qüestió de màgia, sinó qüestió de consciència, creativitat i cocreació entre diversos agents. Si a més, a aquesta iniciativa, amb una clara vocació mediambiental, se li suma el valor social que aporta, el resultat és el projecte 'Parelles Creatives - Trastos vells'.
Convertir soles de sabata, plàstics que provenen de restes de joguines o roba usada, en productes innovadors, com ara safates de cultiu hidropònic, un rascador de gats, un tendal o un gronxador, no és qüestió de màgia, sinó qüestió de consciència, creativitat i cocreació entre diversos agents. Si a més, a aquesta iniciativa, amb una clara vocació mediambiental, se li suma el valor social que aporta, el resultat és el projecte 'Parelles Creatives - Trastos vells'.
El projecte comunitari Caixa d'Eines i Feines ofereix la possibilitat de compartir recursos per allargar la seva vida útil, reduir la producció de residus i ser un estalvi per a les famílies.
La reutilització esdevé una activitat necessària i fonamental en la reducció dels residus generats per l’acció humana i en la lluita global per un món més sostenible.
En els darrers anys, la conscienciació sobre aquesta pràctica s’ha vist palesa en l’aparició d’una sèrie d’iniciatives i projectes destinats a donar una segona vida a productes que encara es troben en ús. A continuació, us oferim un recull de propostes i banc de recursos impulsats per entitats sense ànim de lucre
En els darrers anys, la conscienciació sobre aquesta pràctica s’ha vist palesa en l’aparició d’una sèrie d’iniciatives i projectes destinats a donar una segona vida a productes que encara es troben en ús. A continuació, us oferim un recull de propostes i banc de recursos impulsats per entitats sense ànim de lucre
Compra mejor,
toma las buenas decisiones
Yuka descifra las etiquetas de tus productos
alimentos y cosméticos.
toma las buenas decisiones
Yuka descifra las etiquetas de tus productos
alimentos y cosméticos.
Después de vivir en un futuro
en el que aún hay gente que tiene dudas
sobre el reciclaje, nuestro Bot ha decidido
viajar a nuestro tiempo para ayudarnos
y contestar a nuestras preguntas.
en el que aún hay gente que tiene dudas
sobre el reciclaje, nuestro Bot ha decidido
viajar a nuestro tiempo para ayudarnos
y contestar a nuestras preguntas.
Pide. Comparte. Conecta.
Pide prestado cualquier objeto que necesites a los vecinos de tu barrio.
¿Vives fuera de Barcelona? ¿Vives en Barcelona?
Pide prestado cualquier objeto que necesites a los vecinos de tu barrio.
¿Vives fuera de Barcelona? ¿Vives en Barcelona?
Fem un recull de diverses eines que ens són útils contra el malbaratament i el canvi climàtic i per fer un consum conscient i responsable.
Berlin im Mai 2021 – Innovative Reparaturkonzepte, Tausch- und Verleihplattformen, E-Commerce, Vermittlungsbörsen für geteilte Güternutzung und anderes mehr – neue und vielfältige Praktiken zeigen, wie eine nächste Generation der Kreislaufwirtschaft aussehen kann. Gerade in Berlin ist in den letzten Jahren ein „Innovationsökosystem“ für neue Produktnutzungssysteme entstanden, so das Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT) und das Ecologic Institut in einer Reihe neuer Studien. Im Projekt „Circular City Berlin“ analysieren die Forschungspartner innovative Ansätze der Kreislaufwirtschaft in Berlin mit Schwerpunkt auf Textilien, Bauen und Elektro- und Elektronikprodukte. Das Projekt ist Teil des Forschungsverbunds Ecornet Berlin und wird vom Regierenden Bürgermeister, Senatskanzlei – Wissenschaft und Forschung gefördert.
A consortium of NGOs, science and business formulated a DIN SPEC on a zero waste vision for companies. During the one-year development process of the DIN SPEC, Laura Grotenrath represented Circular Berlin as a delegate of the coordinating body for standardization work of environmental associations (Koordinierungsstelle für Normierungsarbeit der Umweltverbände/ KNU)
Fixperts is a learning programme that challenges young people to use their imagination and skills to create ingenious solutions to everyday problems for a real person. In the process they develop a host of valuable transferable skills from prototyping to collaboration.
Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies.
Fixperts offers a range of teaching formats to suit schools and universities, from hour-long workshops, to a term-long project, relevant to any creative design, engineering and STEM/STEAM studies.
FixCamp is a design and engineering activity camp for the problem-solvers of tomorrow.
For 15 days in 2018 the engineers, designers and thinkers of tomorrow tackled big issues and built big.
Kids and their parents went crazy for FixCamp. If your school, university or company is interested in what happens next then get in touch!
For 15 days in 2018 the engineers, designers and thinkers of tomorrow tackled big issues and built big.
Kids and their parents went crazy for FixCamp. If your school, university or company is interested in what happens next then get in touch!
Why the Buy Nothing Project? The Buy Nothing Project is brought to you by two friends who have worked hard to address the first of the three infamous “Rs,” Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. Rebecca and Liesl want to address the “Reduce” part of the equation, as well as the lesser-known Rs, “Refuse” and “Rethink.”
/via Kamie Robinson
/via Kamie Robinson
Salvage – a term that, in English, was originally associated with the payment received ‘for saving a ship from wreck or capture’ – only came to describe the act of saving itself in the late 19th century with the dawn of the salvage corps. As cities grew, and the risk of large-scale property loss became more central, insurance underwriters found it profitable to establish fire salvage services to reduce losses. A later meaning, evolving during WWI, refers to the ‘recycling of waste material’: put explicitly, the combing of battlefields by the British Army’s Salvage Corps (a ghoulish double entendre), which re-purposed the parts and property of fallen machines and soldiers for continuing use in the war effort.
Ragpicker, or chiffonnier, is a term for someone who makes a living by rummaging through refuse in the streets to collect material for salvage. Scraps of cloth and paper could be turned into cardboard, broken glass could be melted down and reused, and even dead cats and dogs could be skinned to make clothes.
The ragpickers (rag and bone man) in 19th and early 20th Century did not recycle the materials themselves; they would simply collect whatever they could find and turn it over to a "master ragpicker" (usually a former ragpicker) who would, in turn, sell it—generally by weight—to wealthy investors with the means to convert the materials into something more profitable.[1][2]
Although it was solely a job for the lowest of the working classes, ragpicking was considered an honest occupation, more on the level of street sweeper than of a beggar. In Paris, for instance, ragpickers were regulated by law: their operations were restricted to certain times of night, and they were required to return any unusually valuable items to the owner or to the authorities.[1] When Eugène Poubelle introduced the garbage can in 1884, he was criticized in the French newspapers for meddling with the ragpickers' livelihoods.[3] Modern sanitation and recycling programs ultimately caused the profession to decline, though it did not disappear entirely; rag and bone men were still operating in the 1970s.
Ragpicking is still widespread in Third World countries today, such as in Mumbai, India, where it offers the poorest in society around the rubbish and recycling areas a chance to earn a hand-to-mouth supply of money. In 2015, the Environment Minister of India declared a national award to recognise the service rendered by ragpickers. The award, with a cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh, is for three best rag pickers and three associations involved in innovation of best practices.[4]
The ragpickers (rag and bone man) in 19th and early 20th Century did not recycle the materials themselves; they would simply collect whatever they could find and turn it over to a "master ragpicker" (usually a former ragpicker) who would, in turn, sell it—generally by weight—to wealthy investors with the means to convert the materials into something more profitable.[1][2]
Although it was solely a job for the lowest of the working classes, ragpicking was considered an honest occupation, more on the level of street sweeper than of a beggar. In Paris, for instance, ragpickers were regulated by law: their operations were restricted to certain times of night, and they were required to return any unusually valuable items to the owner or to the authorities.[1] When Eugène Poubelle introduced the garbage can in 1884, he was criticized in the French newspapers for meddling with the ragpickers' livelihoods.[3] Modern sanitation and recycling programs ultimately caused the profession to decline, though it did not disappear entirely; rag and bone men were still operating in the 1970s.
Ragpicking is still widespread in Third World countries today, such as in Mumbai, India, where it offers the poorest in society around the rubbish and recycling areas a chance to earn a hand-to-mouth supply of money. In 2015, the Environment Minister of India declared a national award to recognise the service rendered by ragpickers. The award, with a cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh, is for three best rag pickers and three associations involved in innovation of best practices.[4]
The practice of Karang guni is common in Singapore. Its practitioners are a modern form of rag and bone men that visit residences door-to-door.[1] They can either walk along corridors (if that particular HDB estate has a covered carpark) or for certain HDB estates where the carpark is right under the HDB blocks, walk through the carpark downstairs honking a horn. However, around landed properties, they may drive around in a lorry with a horn attached to it, instead of going door-to-door. They make visits in carts, collecting old newspapers and other unwanted items. These will be resold at specialized markets and eventually recycled or reused. "Karang guni" is a Malay phrase for gunny sack, which was used in the past to hold the newspapers. The Karang guni men would haul the heavy sacks on their backs as they walked their rounds to do the collection. Today, most of them use a hand truck instead.
Dumpster diving (also totting,[1] skipping,[2] skip diving or skip salvage,[3][4]) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unused items discarded by their owners, but deemed useful to the picker. It is not confined to dumpsters and skips specifically, and may cover standard household waste containers, curb sides, landfills or small dumps.
Different terms are used to refer to different forms of this activity. For picking materials from the curbside trash collection, expressions such as curb shopping, trash picking or street scavenging are sometimes used.[5] When seeking primarily metal to be recycled, one is scrapping. When picking the leftover food from farming left in the fields one is gleaning.
People dumpster dive for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.[6] Some people do this out of necessity due to poverty,[7] others for ideological reasons, while still others do so professionally and systematically for profit.[8]
Different terms are used to refer to different forms of this activity. For picking materials from the curbside trash collection, expressions such as curb shopping, trash picking or street scavenging are sometimes used.[5] When seeking primarily metal to be recycled, one is scrapping. When picking the leftover food from farming left in the fields one is gleaning.
People dumpster dive for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.[6] Some people do this out of necessity due to poverty,[7] others for ideological reasons, while still others do so professionally and systematically for profit.[8]
The Zabbaleen (Egyptian Arabic: زبالين Zabbalīn, IPA: [zæbbæˈliːn]) is a word which literally means "garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic.[2] The contemporary use of the word in Egyptian Arabic is to mean "garbage collectors". In cultural contexts, the word refers to teenagers and adults who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors since approximately the 1940s. The Zabbaleen (singular: زبال Zabbāl, [zæbˈbæːl]) are also known as Zarraba (singular: Zarrab), which means "pig-pen operators."[2] The word Zabbalīn came from the Egyptian Arabic word zebāla ([zeˈbæːlæ], زبالة) which means "garbage".