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The document discusses innovative approaches to urban waste management through the integration of pig farming and biogas processing. It highlights the potential for pigs to convert organic waste into renewable energy while promoting community engagement and sustainability. The proposed 'PigCity' initiative aims to transform trash into resources, supporting both environmental goals and local economies.
Pigcity 2 0
- 1. " " " trash tourism " " " " " " " * illegal dumping disputes commerical disposal effected by intercepts deposit locations " transfer stations typical trade " " sorting containerisation " burn minor municipal yards * " " * " " " " " " bury disposal methods " " " " " " " " " ‘recycle’ " " 11,500 residents/sq mile x ( tons/yr/hs ) = each = another sort of urban 100,000 households 3% 38% 15% 8% 36% + JUNK space 1,500,000people 584,000households ~5,000/sq mile electronics organics plastics & glass construction (wood, metal scrap) paper packaging individual average by weight x( ) suburban tons/yr/hs =( lb/day/person ) domesticating landfills overall composition rubbish as resource: URBAN INTERCEPTS DIVERT TRASH city target tonnage, short circuiting the transit cost of landfills, the 25% recycled dioxins of incineration, the smug pastoral repressions of cap-remediation schemes, and appropriating the current lull in recession shipping/recycling trade. In their place are pigs- an open, accessible answer to ‘where does it go?’ current With sorted streams, their speedy organic conversions of 10% recycled waste could eliminate up to half of Philadelphia’s total trash. Not a final nor finite (volumetric) solution, ‘living high on the hog’ gives citizens, not just sanitation workers, the 2.0 PIGCITY x 10,000 tons/yr 730,000 tons annual opportunity to corporeally re-engage their consumption habits while offering phased, dispersed deployments for 47% sort systems interception flexibility (and 4-H competitions). Registration #: P1154 340,000 tons annual
- 2. + + alternative PIGGERY PROCESSING methane retrofit o2 PIGCITY PIGGERY PRODUCTS anaerobic + ret rof it biogas tric e lec shelter- 2.0 surrational porkbarrel architecture for bataille shade & heat park program internal shredder shredded paper nesting wetlands catfish + + rain capture arrayed centralized feeders explored cleaning clearance + + distributed water o2 + wandering parcels contiguous compost crops greenhouse pasteurized for safety run-off existing edge in-fill 840 acres filtration 1180 MW 584 acres 860 MW daily pulped consumption = 456 acres 670 MW 26 328 acres 482 MW 200 acres households/pig circuits combo 168 acres 300 MW (70% urban sites, 30% CSA contracts) 136 acres 250 MW 70 acres @ 2 acre prototypes 60 starter pigs 10 acres 36 acres 35-50 1 yr 2 yr 3 yr 4 yr 5 yr 6 yr critical mass pigs/ acre at community sites FUNDING Fair Food Program P.I.G. Alliance White Dog Cafe AGROecosystems Research Grants Resource Enhance. Research Grants SARE PASA Farmers Union 10% AEC Contracts $5 million Tax Credit general use of alt. energy & agr. funding FULL DEPLOYMENT 50% AEC Contracts PECO gas & electric PA Alt. Energy Ini. contract organic inputs possible PECO gas & electric Dept of Defense NJ/DEL Partnerships etc daily collection boundaries local alliances state national methane commercial to electric 60% sale 14 200 MW annual acres dispersed = 200 Alternate Energy Credits possibilities & pork 8 6 months av PIGCITY2.0 litters urban abattoir maturity reworks MVRDV’s tower piggery prototypes. Breaking 11 months with their crisp self-sufficiency and green rhetoric, these porker insertions thrive in the midst of the weened contemporary food/packaging-web and post-industrial 4 months milieu.* From the excessive gifts of garbage, externalities become economic opportunities: butchers-wholesale slaughter organic trash as original feed, 3-6 years scrap paper as nesting materials/fiber, + manure as electric/fertilizer/feed, retired mechanism as meat, palpable consumption feedback, and grotesque-picturesque programming opportunities. 1500 75% survival @ 6 years phasing piggeries * suggested by Melosi, Garbage in the Cities. p40 GENERATIONAL SLAUGHTER or REGIONAL EXPANSION
- 3. south philly in-fill PIGCITY piglet parklette water_ filtered roof top/highway collection paper/packaging waste = straw bedding inputs daily organic scraps deposits ambient shade adult clusters birthing weening clusters shelters, distributed water pig parcels drain toward loader lanes, anaerobic chambers loader cleaning lanes aerobic compost barrels anaerobic digestion chambers = biogas pig-grate covered wetland waste uptake channels/pre-chambers pig containment community garden plots aerobic compost barrels aerobic distributed BETTER A PIGSTY... biogas heat: seasonal greenhouses than vacant. Partially abandoned biogas heat: shelters blocks are reclaimed for community agriculture. Their shredded paper performs as bedding while organic biogas shredders: wastes power the pigs (and a series of food, paper anaerobic digestors). Small, grated wetlands and embedded, rolling compost barrels act as pig barriers biogas heat: 4H meeting room while allowing maintanence equip- biogas generators: electric sell-back composite ment, workers, and 4H pig ‘owners’ easy access. Biogas heat and electric anaerobic distributed biogas heat: generation extend the growing unsalted snow-melt pad season and enable year-round activity (alternately let refreeze for skating)
- 4. fairmont fair flashback PIGCITY pig piers & pavilions water_ filtered living machine/zoo sewage paper waste = straw bedding inputs daily organic scraps deposits shelters + cover, distributed water birthing weening clusters adult clusters grazing corps drains toward catfish pond pig parcels post-anaerobic living machine tropical plantings 1 acre excerpt solids consumption channel catfish anaerobic digestion chambers = biogas waste uptake wetland aerobic transition channel catfish = spawning stocking public fishing community piers direct fish feeding fauna consumption A HISTORY OF... of solid waste + 3 lb organic shred = biotic introductions make Fairmont’s pavilions living machine infamous. Pigs and their cultivated eco- tropical showcase the other, other white meat communities serve as a lovely looking-glass to biogas heat these anguished Victorian scenes of Kudzu and stream stocking trees of Heaven, genealogies of ecologies on corn-bread fry show. Here pigs swim and occasionally graze, cajun stews biogas generators: electric sell-back composite supplementing their organic-urban diet. Their picnic grillin’ biogas shredders: solid wastes feed frying/stocking fish, while a food, paper lush living machine digests remainders. A pier, a glass pavilion . . . while not quite Brighton, flora consumption + waste management certainly seems to be a stroll in the park.