 WASTE RECOVERING SYSTEM |
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Community category The Waste Recovering System is a new a new way of dealing with waste disposal and taking advantage of it through sustainable solutions that can prove to be profitable.Mexico City has 20 million inhabitants who create 650,000 tons of daily waste that ends up in landfills. With the Waste Recovering System, citizens are offered a better and easier system for waste separation and cleaner streets. Workers are offered better working tools for waste recollection, improving recycling methods, lives, and environmental conditions. "Mexico City is one of the most populated cities in the world. Just thinking about the numbers of people, cars, and waste is overwhelming. The Benito Juarez Borough of Mexico City approached us to ask for a better system for recollecting and using the waste produced in houses and offices. We had 650,000 tons of daily improvement opportunities, and on top of that, we had to deal with politics, citizens, bad working conditions, and a workers union," said the team behind the design. They started thinking in a systemic way, dividing the group in small teams working with independent projects but still organized around a collective and well-orchestrated solution. The result was different products (street containers, trucks, and biogas plants, among others), services, and a whole new system, in which nothing ends in a landfill. "There have been positive impacts not only in the daily lives of the citizens, who receive an efficient service and a clean city, but also in improving the life and environmental conditions of all places and people involved; workers and peasants outside the city, forests, mines, and water sources. The constant and growing need of resources for mankind's consumerism is devastating our planet; we must completely change our way of viewing waste as useless and instead see it as valuable resources that are part of the cycle of all natural systems." Designed by: |
