Assignment
- Post your thoughts on the readings.
- Make a step-by-step list of what you will do in the next weeks to test your hypothesis.
- Make a list of items or machines that you will need to perform the experiments.
Cradle to Cradle: A Question of Design
-The Western view saw nature as a dangerous, brutish force to be civilized and subdued.
-the ocean, the air, the mountains, and the plants and animals are more vulnerable than they have been.
-the industry today is more linear, it is focused on making a product and getting it to the customers as fast and as cheap as they can
-however, it did bring higher standard of living.
-fundamental flaws, ignorance on carbon footprint
-“you may be referred to as a consumer— some food, some liquids. Everything else is designed for you to throw away when you are finished with it. but where is away? away has gone away
-human industry’s peculiar relationship in the natural world is terrible
After reading this article, I was very intrigued by this article and I learned a lot and gained new perspective on trash and sustainability. One of the most interesting thing that I read was on consumerism. The quote, “you may be referred to as a consumer— some food, some liquids. Everything else is designed for you to throw away when you are finished with it”, really made me re-think of the term consumerism. If we only use a little bit of the materials and we throw away most of it, should we still be called consumers? Are we only half consumers then? It really made me re-think of the term and grasped my attention to the things that I buy and throw away.
Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic; Plastic and the work of the biodegradable
-the amassing of plastics in seas and oceans has given rise to new ways of working through plastics, such as the recent European Union (EU) Maritime Affairs and Fisheries initiative to pay fishermen in the Mediterranean to catch plastic rather than fish (Damanaki 2011).
-Fishing for plastics also seems to address the pollution of the seas, which not only affects water quality but also impairs the lives of many marine organisms.
-Yet plastics are accumulating in many different ways, as they break down, enter food chains as plasticizers and generate alterations in the eating patterns of diverse organisms
-Plastics are composites of carbon, both in their physical form as petrochemical hydrocarbons and in the carbon energy used to manufacture them. Eight per cent of world oil production contributes to the substance and energy required to manufacture plastics
-Biodegradability has at times been a sought-after quality for plastics, as it signals the seamless elimination of this highly disposable material. Most plastics do not actually biodegrade, but instead degrade into smaller particles through chemical processes and physical weathering.
Step-by-step list
- Add precious plastics Wechat
- began talking to them about building the extrusion machine and others
- start experiencing melting plastics and doing some research about the process of an extrusion machine
- try to replicate the final result of extrusion machine by exploring other types of presses that could be found in a house hold.
- explore other type of bioplastics
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