Can you give me further information?

Thanks,
Lisa

I’ve added the part on Apple as a quote from the article of Larson here above. It’s definitely interesting.

Cheers,

Mira

Pictures of the project are best seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebosque/collections/

And videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBosque

Yes, I plan to stay here at least for a year or two.

Just to explain a bit more – so next to the sewage underground system that we also have in Europe, there is another underground system for organic waste (mainly used by bigger kittchens and restaurants). This organic waste is often used as food for pigs.

Prices for certain basic goods here in China including oil have increased heavily over the last years (especially if you look at it from the point of view of small scale restaurant owners that need to save money whereever they can to make a living). That’s why many people try to save money wherever they can. I’ve even heard a story about someone who put flavour and colour enhancers into pork to make it seem like lam （which can be sold at a much higher price). So some people just use the remaining oil in the organic oil pipes by warming up the mass and extracting the remaining oily liquid. It works the same way, just that it is likely a lot less healthy… Do you understand better now?

All the best,

Mira

“In addition to cost savings, pneumatic waste management systems have environmental benefits. As there are no waste collection trucks circling around the residential areas, there are less fuel emissions, less traffic and fewer accidents. It has also been discovered that the waste collection points of the pneumatic system encourage the users to recycle more efficiently.”

Do the images show now properly?

Regarding what I mentioned about reusing oil from pipes:

In China’s cities there is an underground pipe system to collect organic wastes (wastes from cooking mainly) – this is to avoid that the used water pipes don’t get stuffed with old food and oil. These wastes get collected and often fed to pigs or other animals (which by itself is already very questionable in terms of health and safety, as many bacteria from the rotten food are eaten by the pig, and we are eating the pig meat later).

However, some people actually use this rotten food and other wastes, to take out the oil by cooking the mass and taking out the liquid – you can see that here in the video: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODI1NDI0OTI=.html

You can not imagine how many bacteria will get into the ‘recycled cooking oil’. In terms of health and safety this is simply a disaster.