Overview of items fixed and back in use in the rubbish center. The center tool stock comes almost entirely of rescued items from apartment complex trash.
Broom saved from the trash heap with a large helping of duct tape. Now in use.
Detail of hand made rack in rubbish center. Construction in plastic twine and tape.
Materials: Duct Tape, Plastic Twine
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Overview of hand made + recycled and repurposed equipment collaged together to form a fine-grained recycling center. Focus on spray cans, lighter, and lightbulb disposal baskets with hand drawn signage.
Materials: Baskets, Handdrawn Sign
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Repurposed tv unit houses library of rescued reading material, and acts as storage space for cleaning tools and items that rubbish center workers want to keep for themselves.
Materials: Storage Items
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Trolley underbelly provides space for instructions on its own use – in this case, for use only within the rubbish center area.
Materials: Marker
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Fire extinguisher stored right in the most flammable area. Salvaged bath/shower stool put to use as stand.
Materials: Bath Stool
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Cardboard box recycling tower constructed from salvaged metal rack and wood block for stabilization. Stool for reaching upper levels.
Materials: Metal Rack, Wood Block
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Series of instructions regarding the disposal of paper and cardboard. Green laminated sign reads ‘paper’, hand written sign instructs residents to secure bundles of cardboard with string, typed sign notes instructions from the city.
Materials: Laminated Paper
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Instructions on the disposal of glass bottles/jars – take the lid of first. Note emphasis over ‘lid’, cute portrait, and signature from the ‘Clean Trio’ who take care of the rubbish/recyling center.
Materials: Paper
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Overview of can, glass bottle and plastic bottle recycling station. Full crates form structure and support for empty.
Cheerful handmade sign providing instruction on the correct way to recycle plastic bottles.
Materials: Plastic Crates, Coat Hanger
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Items that the rubbish center workers think are too nice to throw out are displayed on window sills, free for anyone to take. Is that the remains of a ceramic penis to the right?
Materials:
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Cheerful hand made signs instructing residents to (1) flatten plastic bottles and (2) remove the cap and label from plastic bottles before placing them in the recycling sack.
Materials: Paper, Pegs, Coat hanger
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Full nets support emptier ones waiting to be filled. Organic self-supporting structure.
Materials: Net Sacks
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Clothes rack repaired with tape and repurposed as a drying + storage system for rags used by rubbish center staff.
Materials: Clothes Rack, Coat Hanger, Duct Tape, Bags
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Delicate decoration and cobbled together storage.
Materials: Wind Chime, Soap Holder
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Cleaning space constructed by rubbish center staff consists of various recycled and repurposed items.
A water cooler bottle ready for reuse is taped up. Does the duct tape cap keep dirt and liquid out?
Materials: Recycled Materials
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Non-burnable rubbish sign and instructions.
How do the axillary instructions get proposed, formulated and approved? What is the flow of information? Who are the stakeholders and what do they value? What is given priority?
Materials: Laminated A4
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Makeshift door stopper with explanatory tag. This keeps the rubbish center door open when workers and residents are shifting multiple/bulky loads.
Materials: Peg, Basin
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
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Peg transforms hose and basin into stable sink for store cleaners in central Tokyo.
Materials: Peg, Basin
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo.
Sign collaged from reflective tape cautioning motorists to watch out for kids at play in suburban Tokyo.
Materials: Reflective Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo.
Park bench constructed from household seating and plastic twine.
See “Bus stop chairs are gifted, unmatched, and spontaneous” for an insightful take on the subject (on Tokyo Green Space).
Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Functional adaption of park tree for maintenance equipment storage in a run-down apartment complex just off the high-fashion avenue of Omotesando.
Materials: Tree
Location: Off Omotesando, Shibuya, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening.org)
Laundry poles resting on a makeshift wooden frame on the ground floor of an old apartment complex just off the high-fashion street of Omotesando provide support for a hanging garden construction of twisted clothes hangers and simple potplants.
Materials: Laundry Pole, Clothes Hangers
Location: Just off Omotesando, Shibuya
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening.org)
Wooden sign on suburban shopping street reminds children not to play on the staircase. It’s dangerous.
Materials: Wooden Board, Marker
Location: Kunitachi, Tokyo
Thick tar soup in generic paint can. Evidence of smoko time at the local taxi stand.
Materials: Can
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
