For floor line
from research
1. Rubber (tree production), I think this one is intersting but we can't find them in our faculty but we can recycle them such as from tire or do it for new investmentfor future ( we can cut and re-shape them later)
>"Rubber flooring is made from a rubber tree (mainly we can found in southern thailand) a 100% renewable resource. It is easy to install and maintain, is anti-static and provides effective sound insulation and vibration reduction. Rubber flooring is also resistant to fading and cigarette burns."
How to use this material
> I would like to use them for lining only > thickness about 5 c.m. >>> so it can block each unit and easy to pickup each unit since it's elastic.
so, is this ok to do ?
Thanks
8 comments:
The issue is that by importing material into the school you go away from your original intention which was to recycle the school waste.
Of course rubber flooring is 100% renewable but it will not turn back into a tree!... Think about it for the future Golfe, the sustainable discourse is over(ab)used nowadays. It has itself become a market, thus been made extremely trendy and performs by imposing guilt on people.
Where you do not need an additional flooring, a 100% renewable flooring is absolutely not "ecological".
Having said this, it is after all your project, you may develop it according to your beliefs.
I mean that rubber can change the shape again and again like when we melt them not go back to the tree.
and another resource is plastic bottle!
Number 1 plastic recycle
this, we can find them in faculty of course. i didn't mention it before but i already read through this. I was thinking that while the process of reforming it can produce toxic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate
Polyethylene terephthalate
> PET/PETE mainly found for liquid bottle.
I'm stl researching for this material
after the process those PET can be in many materials
many materials after the PET recycle process >>
Worldwide, approximately 4.53 million tons of PET were collected in 2007. This gave 3.64 million tons of flake. 2.6 million tons were used to produce fibre, 0.3 million tons to produce bottles, 0.37 million tons to produce APET sheet for thermoforming, 0.17 million tons to produce strapping tape and 0.12 million tons for miscellaneous applications. (Source: PCI)
Petcore, the European trade association that fosters the collection and recycling of PET, reported that in Europe alone, 1.36 million tonnes of PET bottles were collected in 2009 - more than 48.4% of all bottles. After exported bales were taken into account, 0.905 million tons of PET flake were produced. 0.366 million tons were used to produce fibres, 0.201 million tons to produce more bottles, 0.247 million tons to produce APET sheets, 0.066 million tons for strapping tape and 0.025 million tons for miscellaneous applications. (Source: PCI for Petcore)
Plastic bottles are indeed interesting to recycle.
They would be collected in school, sent to a factory to be transformed, then would come back in another shape (at least, it is a story you can tell).
I would think of passive (in opposition to active) ways of recycling though for your project. It is much more challenging in terms of design, and forces you not to rely on a technology you do not control.
Do you understand my point?
ps: of course i knew you were not thinking that the rubber would come back to being a tree, it was just a way of emphasizing that trees were being cut to produce a 100% renewable material!..
yes i understand : )
i'll keep working on this.
-another thing is to weave something > easy to create line on the floor >>> as you say think in passive (to reuse, not recycle right?)
but i''m not sure about the material yet
just another idea that i'm working on
ok now i decide to use straw weaving like crochet
it can be in a line with many layer
still do for only the line
and to crochet the straw we can keep develop them in future with many pattern
i asked the drink shop at fac.
in one day they use about 10 pack of straw!
so in reality we can use them
and connect each straw by thread and if we wanted to curve it we actually can insert small wire in some straw.
Sounds like a good idea!
Actually you could do much more with this straw crochet: a whole fabric, for a tensile structure, for sun protection for example.
This woven territory could extend little by little, as students consume and re-use...(starting form the lines)
Are you making a model of it?
i'll try my best! :D
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