Check Point: 20 days
So, it has been 20 days since the beginning of the experiment. By now I half-expected my room to be like filled with trash and infested by flies. I thought my wall mosaic would be more impressive by now, but it is not. It is actually pretty pathetic. After a while I learned to not bring home items that I couldn’t use. The experiment results so far really do not meet my expectations. I guess that is a good thing though.
Accomplishments:
+ A composting system is established! I put my food waste into a bin and then periodically put it in Johan’s garden compost pile. But, if i didn’t have a nearby friend with land property… and just lived in a single apartment.. what would I do?
Upcoming:
+ A follow up with the trash-burning company, SYSAV. I have contacted them with a few questions I had mentioned in the trash burning video.
+ A follow up with Maria Wall, part of the environmental engineering faculty at LTH. She is currently working on a project dealing with sustainability in homes as well. I contacted her wanting to meet up and get the specific information on what kind of work she does (and maybe how it relates to my research).
Some Pictures:
Garbage pile on the corner of my kitchen counter…
lots and lots of soft plastic packaging
some melon peels drying by the window sill
you gotta love the kitchen
I heart frozen pizza
The wall mosaic that is not growing very fast after all.
really cool experiment!
i like the melon peel idea.
I like the hearts in the kitchen. I’m assuming the rest of the cardboard gets recycled. How hard is that in Sweden?
b >> Thanks! You should try it. You get to eat melon AND decorate your apartment.
adam >> Yes, the rest of the cardboard is going to be recycled. Recycling receptacles in Sweden are really great. All the apartment complexes I have been too have bins for a lot of different materials (plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, aluminum). Especially in the studios in the design building here have all of these things and more (there is a bin for other metals to be recycled in the workshop).