Materials and Waste: Week 3

Successful projects should be locally embedded, provide local benefits, establish continuity with existing physical, social and cognitive structures and apply locally to appropriate communications and participation procedures (Raven, 2008). By lowering dependency on the techno-cycle and substituting this with closed loop bio-cycle systems, Texel can come closer to their goal of becoming self

The design exists of sub-systems that are interconnected and contribute to the total closed bio-cycle system. In figure 3.1 the system is translated into an image to display all connections between the systems. As can be seen the systems delivers products that can provide in the basic need: food. Besides this the system delivers aid products that are needed as resources to produce products. The…

The system starts with the waste streams of households and the hospitality industry. In this section the sub-systems and supporting technologies are explained by following the journey of the waste-streams. Coffee waste For harvesting, processing, roasting and brewing coffee only  0.2% of the coffee biomass has value on the market. The remainder, which is rich of caffeine is wasted, leads to…

The actors involved in the new socio-technical sub-system are: -       Municipality -       Households -       Shops/companies -       Hospitality (restaurants) -       Plantation farmers -       Animal husbandries -       Biogas digester facility -       NIOZ (seaweed center), Aquaculture technology -       Composting facility Municipality The Municipality would be strongly linked to the…

The hospitality industry is one of Texels biggest industries, which makes tourism important. This system tries to attract tourists by representing the core values. The systems makes tourists acquainted with different types of food production techniques such as agriculture, cattle breeding and aqua culture. It gives room to display craftsmanship in these areas. As hospitality is one of the…

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