Print Email Facebook Twitter Bio Loop Plug-in Title Bio Loop Plug-in: a prototype to close the loop for food waste in a neighborhood scale Author Zhu, Yuge (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor van de Pas, Roel (mentor) van der Zaag, Engbert (mentor) de Krieger, Jos (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Intecture Date 2019-01-29 Abstract One-third of the food produced is wasted while the demand for food is increasing worldwide. The food supply in the consumption phase is not only the last chain but also wastes the most. Yet the majority of residents in the Netherlands have still underestimated this number. Therefore, the design aims at recycling and reusing the food waste on the one hand, and on the other hand potentially reducing the waste by breaking the barrier that hinders consumers to be waste-conscious. Now in Amsterdam, the food waste is mostly categorized and processed as the general residue without official management for the food waste. Meanwhile, what have been emerging are several decentralized neighborhood-based projects that adopt a couple of current techniques (food circular, compost, biogas and biofuel conversion) to tackle the food waste issues, which encourages me to explore the potential of a small-scale intervention to influence the large picture. Therefore, the prototype applies an integral of these techniques, so that the food waste generated by restaurants can be recycled to provide biogas for the stoves, to generate electricity to power equipment for the building and the greenhouse, and to leave fertilizer and compost for the plants in the greenhouse. In varied circumstances, this modular prototype has the possibility to duplicate and grow according to different system boundaries. Plus, the structure and building elements for the construction of the prototype adopt only bio-based material, reclaimed material or standard demountable components, for a sustainable circularity to reduce construction waste and environmental contamination. Subject Food WasteAnaerobic DigestionBiogasFlowPrototypeCircular To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e8b4e9d2-8147-4e5e-973c-8a8c34a3678b Coordinates 52.373241, 4.914452 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Yuge Zhu Files PDF YugeZhu_P5_Presentation.pdf 47.16 MB PDF Yuge_Zhu_P5_Posters.pdf 9.95 MB PDF Yuge_Zhu_Research_Paper.pdf 1.2 MB PDF Yuge_Zhu_Reflection_Paper.pdf 526.73 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e8b4e9d2-8147-4e5e-973c-8a8c34a3678b/datastream/OBJ3/view