1.1 Research
I’ve only been in Eugene for about 10 days and I’ve rarely been outside the campus, so I’m going to talk about research and the problems I’ve identified on campus. The problem I’m interested in in Eugene is the recycling problem. If you go to the various dining halls in the school, there are many places that do not recycle waste. When I was in Korea, I was always supposed to separate the food that I ate less by myself and also separate plastic and general waste. However, here, all food-containing waste is thrown into the trash can and all food and recycling general waste are thrown away without separating them. This reckless garbage collection can cause soil pollution if it is reclaimed.
It’s not Eugene’s statistics, but according to an American statistical article, it’s only about 5% of plastic waste products recycled in US, new report says. You can see that segregated collection is not going well in the U.S. right now. I would like to address these issues.
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-plastic-recycled.html
Very good ideas!
Yes. lets also ask what social opportunities there are with this.
In Barcelona you can look up Punt Verd (Green point) for weekly waste collection. But also recycling books and things like that.
How can the farmers market be used? How can garbage, recycling be DIFFERENT for each type of location based on qualities of the neighborhood and street at the SMALL SCALE that we can now measure with GIS and GPS on phones? How can you recycling point be different for the market place site vs a nearby street?
Barcelona normal street: Garbage, organic, glass, plastics / metals and paper.