{"id":2137,"date":"2015-07-17T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:54:28","slug":"mobile-foundries-for-aluminum-can-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/07\/mobile-foundries-for-aluminum-can-recycling.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Foundries for Aluminum Can Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mobile-foundry-for-aluminum-recycling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2138 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mobile-foundry-for-aluminum-recycling.jpg\" alt=\"mobile foundry for aluminum recycling\" width=\"468\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mobile-foundry-for-aluminum-recycling.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mobile-foundry-for-aluminum-recycling-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In S\u00e3o Paulo, the vast majority of recycling is done by individuals called catadores. They collect discarded drink cans in their carts to recycle for money to help support themselves. London-based Studio Swine took to the streets to create a project that would help catadores get much more money for their work.<\/p>\n<p>The duo behind Studio Swine made an improvised mobile foundry to smelt the aluminum from the cans. They then pressed locally-found objects into sand found at a nearby construction site to make molds. After pouring the liquid aluminum into the molds, the team had created interestingly-shaped stool seats. Each stool requires around 60 cans to produce. This may sound like a lot, but a catadore can collect thousands of cans in one workday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See &amp; read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/dornob.com\/mobile-foundry-gives-recyclers-a-creative-income-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile foundry gives recyclers a creative income stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In S\u00e3o Paulo, the vast majority of recycling is done by individuals called catadores. They collect discarded drink cans in their carts to recycle for money to help support themselves. London-based Studio Swine took to the streets to create a project that would help catadores get much more money for their work. The duo behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315,134,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}