Egg Carton Couch

Up there Gazaly

We turned the Richmond banner into a playful kite, a homeless shelter and a couch.

Footy Banner

It’s tradition for the players to run through the team banner before every game. Each team does the same thing every round for 22 rounds in the season. Thats 16 different banners each week for 22 rounds. Which makes, 352 banners each season not including the finals.

Ever thought about what happens to all these banners?

Yep, they just throw em away.

A few easy phone calls and we had banners from the Dogs Friday night game and the Tigers Saturday night game lined up. Just a few hours from pick up on Friday we received a phone call from the Dogs, informing us that Channel 10 had poached our banner for a story on Aker’s 300th game.

Probably just threw it in the bin after they were done with the story anyway. Don’t you worry Channel 10, we’re onto you.

Saturday night football. Richmond V Essendon

Now, each footy banner is hand made by the dedicated members of the team cheer squad, every week, from rolls of crepe paper and sticky tape. The banners average size is 20 X 8 meters, which means these beauties are using about 320 meters of crepe paper each (Double layers: 160 each side). Now I’m no mathematician, but times that (320) by the amount of banners in a season (352), and, if I’ve done all my calculations correctly, that should equal around 112 kilometers of crepe paper used to make banners every season. That’s a shit load of crepe paper!

And I haven’t even include the sticky tape that’s used.

All this material just thrown in the bin every season.

We found this movie that looks at the making of an AFL team banner. Take notice at the end of the clip the banner being dragged to the bins.

The Exchange

The exchange is simply going to be a system on the website that allows for the exchange of ideas and materials. Acting as a kind of free Ebay, users will have the ability to upload images of materials/waste for other users to use and generate ideas. This system will make people re consider what they see as waste and the many alternatives for materials that are usually discarded. Users will have the option to browse the Exchange for free unwanted materials, or to crowd source creative ideas for things to do with waste materials they already have.

Examples:

Fred works at the local printing press and notices that his work discards perfectly good cardboard tubing and may submit images for people to come and collect.

Susan works for a small design studio and has a collection of corks, she may post images of the corks and crowd source ideas for creative projects.

Gary is dumping all his house hold hard rubbish, he posts images of the contents for people to come and collect.