Furniture Outdoor DALA Combine Recycling with Senegalese Craft Design

Self-proclaimed "activist design" and a designer based in New York, Stephen Burks is to defend the adoption of traditional craftsmanship in the field of modern design to ensure that these arts are preserved and developed as part of the natural evolution of the design.

The activism of Burks' aims to develop a way for artisans and communities depend on these craftwork production benefit socio-economically the advancement of these designs of genre niche of "Arts and crafts" legitimately conventional design. To reinvent local crafts and placing them in contemporary furniture design, Burks has created the DALA outdoor furniture collection.

The word DALA is the Senegal term for the verb "do" and the collection inspiration of crafts and other traditional artistic influences in the region. The collection was created as a collaborative effort between Burks and Dedon, the German furniture company. DALA collection was recently displayed at the Milan design week.

Each piece in the collection of DALA shaped to resemble traditional although Interestingly; crafts Burks also combine these parts with his love of recycling. The collection, therefore, is woven around an aluminum frame powered with the exterior using recyclable fashion extrusion of polyethylene and recycled packaging used in food and beverage. The collection is available in three tones - sea, grass and fire.

Recycling of plastic bags

Much we talked about on our blogs the need to address the problem of plastic bags so much damage caused to the environment.. Today we will stop over in detail to meet one of the possible ways for solution: recycling.

They plastic bags are composed of a material thermoplastic, i.e., a material that is capable of being repeatedly ablandado by applying heat and then hardens to cool down. Therefore it can be recycled.
Let's see what happens with plastic bags since we left them in the containers for recycling:

First, separate the bags of other types of plastics that will follow a different process. Then usually do a quality control of the material. A check of the material is also performed to see if it is contaminated with waste from food. In that case derived you in first step to a "cleaning process".

 The next step is to melt the plastic. The softened plastic is forced through an extruder. What would this be? then something similar to what happens in mass games for children, that they pass through a kind of "sieve" and then leave as if it were spaghetti.  Then gives way to the plastic before being cut with a blade. The final result obtained generally are a few small pieces or balls of plastic, which are then used in the manufacture of other plastic products.

Something important to take into account is the basic rule of the "3 R", according to her, recycling is only a part of the solution. What is crucial is to reduce and Recycle.

When we talk about reducing the idea is to avoid as much as possible, the use, delivery, or the purchase of these bags. Some practical suggestions so that we can lower the amount of plastic bags:
Search for other types of bags or equivalents that are not disposable. For example, bags of cloth or rope, baskets, baskets or boxes.

If you have a plastic bag her not tire after the first use. Use this as many times as possible. For example, use them to store food, for storing clothing or other objects.  Once broken bag (in fact not often resist much) make sure that it will not dump, and instead leave it in the container for plastic recycling. 

Something important to keep in mind is that there are two different types of plastic bags, according to the type of material of which they are composed: 1. HDPE plastic bags - high density polyethylene. They are the thinner bags. These bags are in most cases aptar for recycling.

2. plastic LDPE bags - low-density polyethylene. They are thicker bags, which are usually not suitable for recycling.


Another good alternative is to use bags of plastic biodegradable. 



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Recycling By Pyrolysis

A week ago 9 bloggers: José David Ecoinvent, Antonio de Asturias green, Valentine of Cooliflower, Ignacio of biofuel, Juan and jumanji SolarCristina, Francisco de Xataca science and Foundation TerraJordi, we link to adventure to experience firsthand the recycling of packaging and manufacture of the paper.
To immerse ourselves in this world, we went to the paper company stora enso and Ecoembes in Barcelona and we know the factory, its working process and the recycling of the packaging of Tetra Pak.

We met there to learn the new system of recycling based on pyrolysis, a system that allows both use polyethylene as the aluminum and the role of the Tetra Pak packaging separately.
This means a revolution because previously they could only recycle together, thus not using all the materials.
This new system is able to separate from a polilaminado (plastic and aluminum) aluminum and the gas to be recycled. The gas is used to create steam and thus is used in the production of carton, while aluminium can return to be used for all kinds of applications.

In addition, plant generates electricity in the plant of congeneración (47MW) thus the factory autosatisface their needs by 20%.
To give you an idea of this factory production I leave some data:
They are 165,000 tons of recycled cardboard.60,000 Tons of used beverage cartonsare recycled.For each kilo of packaging recycling are obtained: 5.2 Kw/h, 25 grams of aluminum and 700 grams of fiber in paper.
This new system offers multiple benefits for the environment and the society.

In our hand is get keep recycling and we can enjoy a much healthier planet .
To give you an idea of the figures, which I am sure that you have participated, in 2010 was recycled in Spain through the yellow container 71,000 tonnes of cartons from Tetra Pak, that means more than half of packaging consumed in Spain.


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