Kamikatsu, Japan, has ambitions to be a 'zero waste' town. At its new recycling center, built largely from waste materials, locals sort their garbage into 45 categories.
Planks of burgundy cedar wood frame 700 mismatched windows, forming a patchwork quilt of glass panes against a backdrop of mountain peaks and rolling groves of evergreens.
Located on the banks of the Katsuura River, on a double-horseshoe bend in the remote mountain town of Kamikatsu in southern Japan, the center was opened in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic and has become a new heart for the community. Some items -- including roofing materials, metals for waterproofing, bolts and screws for joints, and equipment such as air-conditioning and plumbing fixtures -- had to be new to ensure compliance with building codes and safety standards, said Nakamura. However, limiting the amount of new resources still helped to reduce the building's environmental impact, and cost, which Nakamura estimated would have been double without the use of recycled materials.
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