Introduction
Nordhavn is growing, and this means there is basis for a new local recycling centre in the Århusgade area. The ambitious project for the Nordhavn redevelopment needs a recycling centre that can meet these ambitions. The new local recycling centre will become a social meeting place for the local society and a centre for recycling and exchange of ideas and experience regarding recycling. In this recycling centre, waste will be seen as a resource. In practice, this means that there will be lectures, flea markets and workshops for repairing broken things.
Effective waste sorting is the most important prerequisite for effective recycling. Therefore, it is relevant to make waste sorting more user friendly and instructive. At local recycling centre Nordhavn, the waste handling will be intuitive and at the same time an exhibition of the possibilities that recycling and reuse offer.
Social
The new recycling centre will become a natural hub for recycling related activites in Nordhavn. People can learn more about the environment, waste, upcycling etc. and within the manned opening hours it is possible to ask the staff about anything related to recycling.
Since the walls of the recycling centre are made of waste the place itself will become a physical manifestation of how waste materials gathered at recycling centres can be transformed into new materials with a higher value.