Tutorial with Ian

Today, I talked to Ian about my idea of creating a localized circular economy within small local businesses that produces organic waste.

Initially, I wanted to investigate the workflow of some local food business such as coffee shop, tea house, bakery and juice stands to identify food waste produced in the process and make products that can be used in the shop with those waste. He suggested that I can somehow create a community trading system where each participating business can produce products with food waste produced within their business and exchange the goods based on business needs. For example, the spent coffee grounds can be made into flower pot and send it to the flower shop next door. Or coasters created with orange peels from the juice stands can be used in the bar across the street. That way, not only wastes are reduced and reused in this process but local businesses started to interact with each other help building a stronger bond within the community. Also, transporting all the products on foot because of the approximate of the geological location among all local business, this mode reduces carbon footprint from transporting and distributing products produced somewhere else.

I could present the project as a proposed narrative—a story about a self-sufficient community who uses waste produced within the community to create and trade products they can use for their business such as signage, gift cards, packaging, furniture etc.

Making a documentary to demonstrate how this can play out maybe?