week 05 « TEAMSUNFISH

week 05

From last weeks journal, I mentioned about the bag that made out of cargo container material. I actually tracked down the documentary that I saw and found out that it was a brand called ‘Freitag’. This brand actually produces variety kinds of bag out of truck tarps (it wasn’t from the airport after all). Considering the strength and performance of tarpaulins materials, these bags are extremely heavy quality and creative design attracts many young people in Europe and spreading all across the globe.

Moving on from the Freitag bags, our team met up this Tuesday and talked about the reality of recycling in our minds and the future of recycling. During the meeting we came across with the theory that all this ‘fuss’ and worries about our recycling consciousness will eventually evolve and develop as the time goes on. Thinking about back in the 70’s and 80’s we can clearly see that there has been changes or at least an attempt to make changes. We thought that this ‘evolution pattern’ will grow and our understanding and the view of recycling will become more mature. Thus, by the time of our children which is roughly 20 years from now, people will actually have recycling habits in their conscious. The only problem that if this was true is whether our Earth will make it until the time comes.

Then, we questioned that how can humanity speed up this evolution. Well the problem was very clear. It’s either our laziness or the lack of impact on recycling campaign. We thought most of the recycling campaign became boring and even annoying sometimes. This gave us the another brief introduction of outcome direction.

The current issue of Earth Hour made me research about the result after the Earth Hour. According to Wikipedia, it turns out to be that Ireland had a reduction in electricity use of about 1.5% for the evening. In three hours period, they saved about 50 megawatts, saving roughly 6 tones of carbon dioxide. Melbourne also saved about 10.1% of electricity. The point is that these kinds of attempt were very new to public and it actually worked to get the message across around the world. Although the attempt wasn’t fully global, I think that if these kinds of campaign keeps on and it will actually evolve in to a solution that might be very effective.

Reference

Wikipedia

from the definition of tarpaulin

website:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpaulin

Wikipedia

frome the definition of Earth Hour

website:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour

Freitag

from ‘Tarps Resourcing’ and ‘Production’

website:http://www.freitag.ch/shop/FREITAG/page/tarps_sourcing/detail.jsf

website:http://www.freitag.ch/shop/FREITAG/page/production_page/detail.jsf

Earth Hour