Comments for waste for life http://wasteforlife.org basura por vida | lithoele tsa bophelo Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:45:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on RISD Teams Up With Waste for Life by eGFI – Student Blog » Waste for Life: Making Trash Useful http://wasteforlife.org/?p=168&cpage=1#comment-315 eGFI – Student Blog » Waste for Life: Making Trash Useful Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:45:42 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=168#comment-315 [...] the nation’s poorest residents a more reliable source of income. Recently, students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have teamed up with Waste for Life to design beautiful products from garbage. In addition, [...] [...] the nation’s poorest residents a more reliable source of income. Recently, students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have teamed up with Waste for Life to design beautiful products from garbage. In addition, [...]

]]> Comment on Update from Smith: April 8th by efeinblatt http://wasteforlife.org/?p=581&cpage=1#comment-308 efeinblatt Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:55:45 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=581#comment-308 We have no way of knowing whether the city is prepared to contract one or more cooperatives to make park benches/furniture, but the idea is appealing. The designs, however, may be more compex and, obviously, there needs to be much testing with regards to durability, safety, and toxicity (because they would be used in a public place). Products made from recycled plastic bags - whether high or low density - are probably not going to pass anyones' saftey standards for food storage or as vessels for food consumption. However, they are no more toxic than the original bags themselves - which means I wouldn't suck on them :) Take a look at the RISD wasteforlife site: http://risdwasteforlife.wordpress.com/materials/ and download their 'recipies' for ideas about cutting. Sharp knives and bandsaws are good. Cookie cutters might not cut it. We have no way of knowing whether the city is prepared to contract one or more cooperatives to make park benches/furniture, but the idea is appealing. The designs, however, may be more compex and, obviously, there needs to be much testing with regards to durability, safety, and toxicity (because they would be used in a public place).

Products made from recycled plastic bags – whether high or low density – are probably not going to pass anyones’ saftey standards for food storage or as vessels for food consumption. However, they are no more toxic than the original bags themselves – which means I wouldn’t suck on them :)

Take a look at the RISD wasteforlife site: http://risdwasteforlife.wordpress.com/materials/ and download their ‘recipies’ for ideas about cutting. Sharp knives and bandsaws are good. Cookie cutters might not cut it.

]]> Comment on Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives UNDP Grant by dalex http://wasteforlife.org/?p=532&cpage=1#comment-304 dalex Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:23:09 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=532#comment-304 Hello, I'm trying to get in contact with someone from Waste For Life, but there is no contact information on the website. Is there an email address I can reach you at? Thanks, Danny Alexander dalexdalex@gmail.com Hello,

I’m trying to get in contact with someone from Waste For Life, but there is no contact information on the website. Is there an email address I can reach you at?

Thanks,
Danny Alexander
dalexdalex@gmail.com

]]> Comment on Funding Cooperatives in Lesotho by Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives UNDP Grant | waste for life http://wasteforlife.org/?p=363&cpage=1#comment-300 Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives UNDP Grant | waste for life Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:38:27 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=363#comment-300 [...] germinated. Read his summary of the project, which will go into full swing beginning this summer: http://wasteforlife.org/?p=363 « Previous [...] [...] germinated. Read his summary of the project, which will go into full swing beginning this summer: http://wasteforlife.org/?p=363 « Previous [...]

]]> Comment on Champagne! by NilsRehmann http://wasteforlife.org/?p=50&cpage=1#comment-18 NilsRehmann Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:49:35 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=50#comment-18 Congratulations!!!! I am really happy for you that the Hotpress is working. I wished I could try the hotpress by myself. Enjoy the celebration! Best wishes Nils Congratulations!!!! I am really happy for you that the Hotpress is working. I wished I could try the hotpress by myself.
Enjoy the celebration!

Best wishes
Nils

]]> Comment on Bajo Flores by Painting a Picture at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) http://wasteforlife.org/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-10 Painting a Picture at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:12:44 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=38#comment-10 [...] Bajo Flores, which is problematically operational, and which we have written about it in an earlier post. (Yesterday, there was a neighborhood NIMBY demonstration against the location of another of these [...] [...] Bajo Flores, which is problematically operational, and which we have written about it in an earlier post. (Yesterday, there was a neighborhood NIMBY demonstration against the location of another of these [...]

]]> Comment on No Cost Housing by Traveling Knowledge at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) http://wasteforlife.org/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-7 Traveling Knowledge at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:20:30 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=27#comment-7 [...] The Working World, who can help put this whole package together for us, and Carlos Levinton and his group who will keep this thing going when we’ve left, our pieces are coming together and our story [...] [...] The Working World, who can help put this whole package together for us, and Carlos Levinton and his group who will keep this thing going when we’ve left, our pieces are coming together and our story [...]

]]> Comment on Bajo Flores by Traveling Knowledge at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) http://wasteforlife.org/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-6 Traveling Knowledge at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:18:41 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=38#comment-6 [...] Register « Bajo Flores [...] [...] Register « Bajo Flores [...]

]]> Comment on Sorting out the difference by Traveling Knowledge at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) http://wasteforlife.org/?p=31&cpage=1#comment-5 Traveling Knowledge at waste-for-life (basura-por-vida) Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:10:51 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=31#comment-5 [...] CEAMSE (Coordinación Ecológica Area Metropolitana Sociedad del Estado) has been in business for 30 years and is the biggest player in this whole story. It is a municipal and regional government amalgam with private affiliations, which manages the landfills that receive the waste of the 13,000,000 people of the greater metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. No one we’ve spoken to has been able to unravel either the structure or operations of CEAMSE, and opinions vary widely about whether or not it is the devil incarnate. CEAMSE has only one landfill that is in operation, Norte III, a little over an hour’s drive from the city center. (The others are either being turned into ‘eco-parks’ or have collapsed.)  We have described our visit there in an earlier post: http://wasteforlife.org/?p=31 [...] [...] CEAMSE (Coordinación Ecológica Area Metropolitana Sociedad del Estado) has been in business for 30 years and is the biggest player in this whole story. It is a municipal and regional government amalgam with private affiliations, which manages the landfills that receive the waste of the 13,000,000 people of the greater metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. No one we’ve spoken to has been able to unravel either the structure or operations of CEAMSE, and opinions vary widely about whether or not it is the devil incarnate. CEAMSE has only one landfill that is in operation, Norte III, a little over an hour’s drive from the city center. (The others are either being turned into ‘eco-parks’ or have collapsed.)  We have described our visit there in an earlier post: http://wasteforlife.org/?p=31 [...]

]]> Comment on Variations by Parveen http://wasteforlife.org/?p=22&cpage=1#comment-4 Parveen Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:02:07 +0000 http://wasteforlife.org/?p=22#comment-4 Dear Caroline and Eric: It is such a delight for me to read your blog. When I was in Buenos Aires in February/March for five weeks, I knew that you would be working in Buenos Aires, but I had no idea that you would be working with cartoneros. I was always drawn to these angels of the night, as I called them when I was there. Walking home late at night, I would see so many of them, and once I saw a group with a white horse! It was a sad-looking horse, very thin, but somehow it fit. I wanted to take a picture, but I am always shy about photographing strangers, especially because I could not explain to them with my limited Spanish vocabulary how truly fascinating all this was. When I watched them sort through garbage, I wondered why the citizens of Buenos Aires did not make their jobs easier by throwing out their garbage in different piles. Perhaps because I have lived with the recycling mentality, it is just natural to me. I always left my garbage in Buenos Aires out in different piles, one for waste, one with bottles and cans, and one with paper and cardboard. I think my landlord was getting confused at my system and wondering why I was so anal! But somehow it made me feel that I was helping the cartoneros. And in those moments, I felt like telling everyone that they should do the same. But I never did. And I did not have so many in-depth interactions with the portenos. Perhaps if I had been there a little longer, it would have been different. I always wanted to take to the cartoneros and find out more about their work, but my language skills and general hesitation got in the way. When I returned to Canada and spoke to Caroline about what she would be doing in Bs. As. I was so thrilled to find out that she would be working with these groups. I really wish, to this day, that I could come to Bs. As. and help you. But I cannot at the moment, so I will just read your blog from here. I applaud what you are doing and I wish you much success! Oh, and by the way, when I went to hear Hugo Chavez speak, I saw several Barrios de Pie banners, and again, for some reason, I was really drawn to the name. I thought it was a symbolic name. When I read about them in your blog, it was really interesting to find out what they do and how big their movement is. I wish you all the best and look forward to reading more about your future collaborations in Bs. As. Dear Caroline and Eric: It is such a delight for me to read your blog. When I was in Buenos Aires in February/March for five weeks, I knew that you would be working in Buenos Aires, but I had no idea that you would be working with cartoneros. I was always drawn to these angels of the night, as I called them when I was there. Walking home late at night, I would see so many of them, and once I saw a group with a white horse! It was a sad-looking horse, very thin, but somehow it fit. I wanted to take a picture, but I am always shy about photographing strangers, especially because I could not explain to them with my limited Spanish vocabulary how truly fascinating all this was. When I watched them sort through garbage, I wondered why the citizens of Buenos Aires did not make their jobs easier by throwing out their garbage in different piles. Perhaps because I have lived with the recycling mentality, it is just natural to me. I always left my garbage in Buenos Aires out in different piles, one for waste, one with bottles and cans, and one with paper and cardboard. I think my landlord was getting confused at my system and wondering why I was so anal! But somehow it made me feel that I was helping the cartoneros. And in those moments, I felt like telling everyone that they should do the same. But I never did. And I did not have so many in-depth interactions with the portenos. Perhaps if I had been there a little longer, it would have been different. I always wanted to take to the cartoneros and find out more about their work, but my language skills and general hesitation got in the way. When I returned to Canada and spoke to Caroline about what she would be doing in Bs. As. I was so thrilled to find out that she would be working with these groups. I really wish, to this day, that I could come to Bs. As. and help you. But I cannot at the moment, so I will just read your blog from here. I applaud what you are doing and I wish you much success!

Oh, and by the way, when I went to hear Hugo Chavez speak, I saw several Barrios de Pie banners, and again, for some reason, I was really drawn to the name. I thought it was a symbolic name. When I read about them in your blog, it was really interesting to find out what they do and how big their movement is.

I wish you all the best and look forward to reading more about your future collaborations in Bs. As.

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