Trashed in Seattle

From my recycling bin to the Washington Park arboretum. This project explores the materiality of Trash in Seattle. Created for "Making the Cut" a project commemorating the lowering of Lake Washington from the University of Washington's Cartographic Imaginations, an advanced Landscape Architecture Studio.

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Seattle-King County Department of Public Health

July 30, 1984

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Beverly Pepper Montlake Landfill Proposal, 1979  

University of Washington East Campus on Union Bay University of Washington, sponsor 

http://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/records-licensing/archives/exhibits/earthworks.aspx

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Compostable Journal

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1979 interview with artist Beverly Pepper for King County symposium, Earthworks:  Land Reclamation as Sculpture.  The artist describes her design for an earthwork at the polluted site, the Montlake Landfill in the northeast section of University of Washington campus in Seattle. 

King County Archives

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Display diagram plan

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Soil types, Land Use & Liquefaction 

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Geographies of Trash - El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn

Sentient City - Edited by Mark Shepard

Post Modern Wetlands - Rod Giblett

Garbage Wars: the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago - David Naguib Pellow

Worms Eat My Garbage - by Mary Arlene Appelhof

Cognitive Surplus - Clay Shirtky

Vashon Island Archeology - Edited by Julie K. Stein and Laura S. Phillips Burke Museum

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

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Photos from Seattle Municipal Archives 

http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/

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Elaborated by the SENSEable City Lab and inspired by the NYC Green Initiative, TrashTrack focuses on how pervasive technologies can expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. Can these same pervasive technologies make 100% recycling a reality?

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Recyclers of metals, plastics battered by global commodity plunge

Recyclers are fighting to stay alive as tanking commodity prices bring down the value of recycled industrial and post-consumer materials.

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First, even the best liner and leachate collection system will ultimately fail due to natural deterioration, and recent improvements in MSWLF (municipal solid waste landfill) containment technologies suggest that releases may be delayed by many decades at some landfills.

US EPA Solid Waste Disposal Criteria (August 30, 1988a)

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Plastic-eating worms may offer solution to mounting waste, Stanford researchers discover

An ongoing study by Stanford engineers, in collaboration with researchers in China, shows that common mealworms can safely biodegrade various types of plastic.

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Delhi is a very small, and very beautiful town in rural upstate New York. This map illustrates the mutually beneficial relationship between Delhi, it’s rural neighbors and New York City.  As a part of the Delaware River Watershed which supplies a large portion of New York City’s drinking water, Delhi enjoys resources and policy designed to keep the water supply for over 8,000,000 people clean and safe.  This has manifested in a number of ways including stream restoration and buffer projects, as well as a ban on fracking in the area.  

This was an early investigation for the Winter 2016 Cartographic Imaginations Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio at the University of Washington. Inspiration for this investigation comes from Archie’s Press.

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You're invited!

Friday 3/11 5:30-7:30 Gould Hall Pavilion

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Map of Seattle landfills, regrades, and cuts as of 1996. Click through for a better view. Found in Seattle Engineering Department Digest, Special Commemorative Edition. Vertical File 29, Seattle Municipal Archives.

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Seattle’s abandoned landfills and liquefaction zones 

/ January 2016