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Author: Brian Degger
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Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] electronic waste
love the spindle cases.... prob great for tiny petridish incubators :)


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> we overlapped urban gardening with upcycling and created sprout containers
> out of the cd spindle boxes, used old computer cases to plant salad and
> small citrus tree, speaker cases and old floppy disks to create holders for
> small kitchen plants like sage or lavander. CD spindle cases are used for
> hanging gardens too where mostly we planted parsley. All in all, a good
> addition for a healthy diet for multimedia centre inhabitants of MMC
> Ljubljana for coming winter :)
>
> photos here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gentlejunk/sets/72157635279361319/
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.623113361079149.1073741831.618548328202319&type=3
>
> We served home made ghee, amaranth and sprouts at opening. crackers are
> bought cheeply at local supermarket :)
> all in all, we had a nice group of people working and imagining possible
> futures, but most important we had urban gardeners, designers, hacklabers
> and biohackers working with other folk.
>
> We were concerned on toxicity of plastic we use for upcycling. looking at
> some resources we found out that cd spindle cases are perfectly ok,
>
> http://www.novi-svjetski-poredak.com/2012/03/08/koliko-je-opasna-plastika-pojma-nemate/
> when we compared with yoghurt or cola/juice/water containers, strangely cd
> spindle cases won by large as non toxic plastics.
>
> All best
>
> Kruno
>
>
> Hi Kruno,
> I am from metareciclagem (www.metareciclagem.org) in Brazil. I am very
> interested in knowing more about what you are going to develop there.
> I work with smallholders in the Hinterland. The link between e-waste and
> agriculture interests me greatly.
>
> best,
> o2
>
>
> 2013/10/22 Gabriel Menotti <gabriel.menotti@???>
>
>> Oi, Kruno! First thing that comes to mind is Jennifer Gabrys work:
>>
>> http://www.digitalculture.org/books/digital-rubbish/
>>
>> best!
>> Menotti
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/22 Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???>:
>> > Dear Bricos,
>> >
>> > Maja an me are working on series of workshops in Ljubljana and are
>> looking
>> > for links about e-waste/computer waste and its upcycling/recycling. We
>> are
>> > interested in toxic element - especially in plastic but also other
>> > materials. We are preparing an idea with fine name Geeks Garden where we
>> > would use computer paraphernalia as kits for growing plants. It will
>> help a
>> > lot to get some of your fine ideas.
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Kruno
>> >
>> >
>> >
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