The “Closed Loop” Cleans up Well

Krystal Persaud — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:30:42 +0000

Oh my, the Closed Loop is getting classy and professional! I made some business card prototypes before I went to Milan. Here is what they looked like:

The back piece is leftover cardboard packaging I had in my room. The graphics were printed on a sheet of office paper. It is all held together with two hemp stitches at the top and bottom. A designer I met at the fair who specialized in cardboard furniture had a business card that I found very clever. The base of her card was cardboard (duh), but the text information was stamped on. I think this could be an interesting next prototype… laser cutting out the closed loop logo to create a stencil and then coloring it in. Many possibilities…

I liked how the graphics on the business card layed out, so I’m trying to see how it fits as the website header. What do you think? Its a little overly white-washed out now. We’ll see how it looks when I get a background color up.

Check Point: 20 days

Krystal Persaud — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:06:39 +0000

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.

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The “Closed Loop” Cleans up Well

Check Point: 20 days