Zero Waste

A long red wooden building below a green mountainside, its front made of windows of many different sizes and frames.
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Illustrated through Kamikatsu's community-wide sorting system, Zero Waste shows waste as a cultural construct rather than only a recycling problem, reshaping what any product designed for the town must be.
Presented through Kamikatsu as proof that waste is a cultural construct: a community-wide designed system, not a recycling programme, in which sorting into 45 categories redefines waste as a collection of distinct resources and changes what any product designed for that town must be.

In the Framework

  • Waste is a human invention · concept
  • Systems · variable

In the book

  • Chapter 15, section 151 · Environment Dimension
  • Chapter 15, section 152 · Variables
Methods