www.fastcompany.com: The construction industry generates a lot of waste. Construction and demolition create more than 600 million tons of waste debris every year in the U.S., according to Environmental Protection Agency figures from 2018. That’s twice as much as the municipal waste collected from homes and businesses in cities.
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As Colao’s company has demonstrated, diminishing the amount of waste in building projects is very possible. I think that the problem is that most people don’t want to take the time to find and execute these solutions. As the article mentioned, demolished buildings could instead be deconstructed and recycled, but that would take time and more careful work, that people just don’t care enough about the environment to do. This article ties very well into theatre, the waste that we create is very scary for me. I get anxious anytime I have to buy new materials for a project that I know is just going to sit in a hallway for a few weeks, then sit in my room. I’d far rather used something recycled. The article also mentions that creating less waste also requires more planning, which is why quality estimating is so essential. It’s good to see that some companies are trying to make solutions for their waste.
If it’s possible to make these considerations (and effectively begin to solve the massive waste problem) in lathe construction projects, why can’t we do it on a more personal level– let's say, at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama? Think about what happens to everything we (as theatre people) throw in the disposal bin during the strike? Yes, we have huge budgets for each production allowing us to rebuilt anything we might need. And yes, we have stock pieces often recycled for other productions. But would it be such a bad idea to consider how we reuse, reduce, and recycle pieces as a whole from production to production? Would it not be a fascinating design challenge? As Colao points out the solutions lie in education. And again, we’re in an educational environment being trained as the next generation of theatre practitioners. So why not begin to adopt practices like these from now?
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