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Waste for Life is built on partnerships
Our Waste for Life partners comprise an international network of people who pool their talents and resources to develop inventive, community driven, needs-based technologies. We freely disseminate those technologies and apply them where we can to help redress the social and ecological injustices that disproportionately affect people who live on society’s margins.
Our network is eclectic and cooperative because we know that problems know no disciplinary boundaries.
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Almost 5 years ago, with the help of Camilo Navarro, who is now Dean of Engineering at Fundación Universitaria Salesiana in Colombia, and Ana Equiarte from the The Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve in San Diego, we facilitated several community workshops in and around Tijuana's Cañón de los Laureles to assess the feasibility of and identity potential partners for a new WFL project in Mexico. Adela Bonilla, a local artisan who works with variety of waste materials, expressed interest. 5 years later, and after many fits and spurts, the project had a name - ReCREA (Repurposing Waste for Coastal Resilience), several partners, and support from the San Diego Foundation as part of their Binational Resilience Initiative. We are concluding the capacity building and R&D phase of the project and moving into the implementation phase with the launch of a community-based waste plastic composite business led by Adela. Her first client is the Shirley Marcus School of Engineering at the University of San Diego, which has just placed an order for 1000 notebooks!![]()
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We just received a generous Community Development grant from #Sullivan180 to support our newest theatre project, On Belonging, and are looking for playwrights, wanna be playwrights, never thought I'd write a play playwrights - you get the picture - who have something to say or some inchoate feeling they'd like to express about belonging. Not more than 15 minutes performance time. Submission due date: May 30th.
Eyeglass case and the raw sheet it was fashioned from
Notebook from waste plastic and fabric