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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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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Full nets support emptier ones waiting to be filled. Organic self-supporting structure.
Materials: Net Sacks
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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Thick tar soup in generic paint can. Evidence of smoko time at the local taxi stand.
Materials: Can
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Several oil cans cut apart, joined together with duct tape and painted form a large commercial-use outdoor rubbish bin.
Location: Nagoya
Materials: Duct Tape, Oil Can, Paint
Plastic basket secured to fence with peg provides a spot to place bottle caps to add recycling. Small tag attached with twist-tie makes purpose clear.
Location: Nagoya
Materials: Plastic Basket, Peg, Plastic Twist-Tie
To recycle your plastic, you need to dry it. To dry it you need pegs and clothes hangers.
Materials: Pegs, Clothes Hangers
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Tree and plastic bag form an easily disposed of ashtray in a local park.
Materials: Plastic Bag, Tree
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
You feel like a litter bug dropping your empty can on the ground.
Not so if you leave it in a tree.
Materials: Tree
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo
Streetside storage for net used on rubbish day.
Materials: Shopping Basket, Plastic Twine, S-Hook
Location: Akabanebashi, Tokyo
Simple smoko spot constructed from can attached to roadside barrier with wire.
Materials: Can, Wire
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Rubbish bin lin tethered to body with rope.
Materials: Rope
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Banned from smoking in the newly built residence (the last one burnt down) the man of the house has created a smoking area in his outdoor sink with an opened empty beer can tied to the stand with plastic twine.
Materials: Beer Can, Plastic Twine
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
A bottle cap receptable (from recyclable PET bottles) attached to the apartment complex rubbish drop-off with a length of wire is a convenient community-use add-on.
Materials: Plastic Basket, Wire
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
The top of the rubbish drop-off point for this apartment complex has been transformed into a bright community flower garden. A lovely twist to the usually forboding and odorous gaping deadspace.
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
“Dump No Rubbish” sign in card and marker posted on drink vending machine can disposal bin.
Materials: Card
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
The tree closest to the road becomes the default dumping ground for rubbish from the rest of the site. A convenient and easy to spot landmark.
Materials: Tree
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Bicycle basket as rubbish bin for vending machine and convenience store bought drinks.
Materials: Bicycle Basket
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Unneeded refrigerator covered in plastic sheeting and secured with duct tape acts as potplant stand at the back of a building in Sendagaya, Tokyo.
Materials: Plastic Sheet, Duct Tape
Location: Sendagaya, Tokyo
Receptacle for empty cans is tethered to the vending machine with wire threaded through the base of the receptacle and tied to the machine.
Materials: Wire
Location: Harajuku, Tokyo
Hanging wire hook for putting out the rubbish for collection. Attached to the wall with bent wire hooked over the top of the wall (see another example here), threat of swinging constrained by threading the wire through a fastener made of a small wood block glued to the wall. Hook for holding the rubbish bag made of bent wire.
Materials: Wire, Wood
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
