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Oct 23, 2021the temporary installation appears to float in front of the cathedral of santa maria de la redonda in logroño.
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Oct 22, 2021a world away from typical prison architecture, the project provides a warm, welcoming space where inmates can visit their families.
Oct 21, 2021thanks to this construction, it is possible to keep a temperature of 20 ° C indoors, without turning on the heat, while the outdoor thermometer displays -15 ° C.
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the korea pavilion is defined at once by its stepped, pixelated facade which transforms with waves of color.
one factor that complicates plastic recycling is that many different
types of plastic are used in consumer packaging.
plastics must be sorted by type before manufacturers can
reuse it to make a new product. in order to facilitate sorting,
the plastics industry uses a numbering system to group
plastic packaging into seven general categories.
polyvinyl chloride (pvc) belongs to group #3,
which is rarely collected and recycled / it is mostly discarded.
(usually of the seven groups, only #1 PET and #2 HDPE bottles are
commonly collected and recycled into new material).
it is known that polyvinyl chloride has many harmful environmental effects
and recycling groups are concerned about pvc, because a small
amount can severely contaminate large loads of PET (#1) plastic
(pvc strongly resembles PET). if pvc is accidentally incorporated in a load
of material being processed for recycling, a release of potentially toxic
compounds can occur.
the efforts to experiment with pvc recycling that the ECVM is making,
are very interesting and a good early step. but for now..
please keep any pvc bottles you might end up with,
out of the recycling box!