The landscape architect's guide to the world of solid waste
The objective for this master's thesis was to highlight the magnitude of the waste-related issues through investigation of the impacts that solid waste has on the landscape. Our ambition was to prove the potential of creating new landscape values with waste. To get a deeper understanding on the topi...
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SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)
2016
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| Sumario: | The objective for this master's thesis was to highlight the magnitude of the waste-related issues through investigation of the impacts that solid waste has on the landscape. Our ambition was to prove the potential of creating new landscape values with waste. To get a deeper understanding on the topic, a literature review was carried out.
Through this approach, we have managed to conclude that waste is an ever present part of people’s lives and a growing global issue. Solid waste impacts the landscape in various ways - both directly and indirectly. The direct impacts are strongly connected to the landfill sites, where the garbage is accumulated and buried in the ground. Here, waste affects the region visually in a pronounced way, occupying the land. Other examples of evident disruption are unpleasant odors, dust, noise or damage to the infrastructure caused by heavy vehicles used for transportation of waste materials. Indirect impacts of garbage involve various levels of environmental pollution. It is primary due to methane and leachate generated on waste sites during decomposition of organic material and percolation of water through garbage. Both substances cause number of issues connected to the landscape, including vegetation damage, air and groundwater pollution, fires and global warming. Even health hazards, which may not seem related to the land, affect animals, potentially leading to population changes that eventually impact the landscape.
Landscape architects can work with solid waste through transformation and re-designing of waste sites into landscapes with new function and appearance, as well as implementing prior waste products into design projects and raising awareness of the garbage-related issues among the public.
The thesis is concluded with a discussion of the challenges for our society, as well as a reflection on why landscape architects should take the role as active agents in the waste management practice. |
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