I interviewed LCC's Sarah Temple on the 'Meet the tide' project which designed our current bin system. 'Meet the tide' is UAL's platform for students to engage in sustainable art and design, and is something which Sarah is involved in.
This is a condensed version of what she had to say:
"The bins were designed by a final year UAL student called Chris Morley who was discovered at his degree show, and asked to help create the branding for the 'meet the tide' project. This led to him creating the red and green bin system we have today. Although its interesting that a lot of people find the bins extremely ugly!
It's interesting that you talk about food waste and compost because there is actually a project in the making at the moment to build a sustainable 'colour garden' at LCC. A man named Gary Martin is in charge, and the idea is to grow things for their colour and to teach student about the natural dye process, using things like red onion etc.
There was also another group of LCC students a few years back who set up a project called 'food for good', where they would go round all the restaurants at the end of the day, and collect the leftover food, and take it homeless shelters.
Another place in London worth looking into is a Kings Cross Restaurant called Acorn House, and it claims to have 0% waste!
It sounds like a very interesting project and I hope you are able to get some good ideas!"
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