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Working with rubbish:

 

First, lets ask, what is waste?  . . We think of waste as any un-wanted thing; stuff produced by people with no value to humans. However, if we think about the world outside of human/economic terms, if we think about the world more as a system or in terms of an ecology, is there really such thing as waste? Might it all just be stuff thats in the wrong place? 

       

         Formidable Veg. Sound Sys. : No such thing as waste

The Magpie Project is a non-profit, up-cycling makery. We make high quality, beautiful, household things out of materials that would otherwise be wasted.
 

The Magpie Project currently hopes to raise sufficient funds to start a small social enterprise that produces these goods on a larger scale and provides opportunities for people in rough situations, e.g. young people, homeless, long-term unemployed.

 

Donations are welcome!

 If we think about the world as a closed system, then any overproduced thing must inturn produce an imbalance or 'dis-equilibrium'. This must then drive a movement of the system to a new equilibrium. E.g. if a new organism were to evolve to produce a certain material (e.g. oxygen, in an oxygen free word), then without consumption and recycling, this substance would build up in concentration until it eliminates the organisms that are producing it or a new process would evolve so that the substance is used and re-integrated. 

 

It is clear that on a finite planet (unrecyclable/uncompostable) waste production must ultimately lead to, reintergrating,  social or natural responses. It is almost as if two emergent futures are possible, one in which new processes are employed to reintegrate human waste into some stable state or the earth changes sufficient that humanity, in its current form, is unable to produce waste. It is the former possible future that constitutes the ideologies of sustainability, environmentalism and the driving force behind this project. 

 

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