Trashswag is a great resource for architecture students and anyone in search of free materials. Trashswag is a platform for issuing curb alerts to the community about salvageable trash including wood, doors, furniture and other building materials laying on the street.The concept is simple: see the trash, take a photo, upload onto the app.
Photos from KLH UK (top right) and Ecobuild (bottom right). ABSTRACT by Henry Murdock Our built environment is constantly adapting to changing factors: technology, the state of the economy, material resource availability, and, in turn, environmental conditions. The latter has gained notable importance in popular discourse, and especially in the architecture and construction professions. However, as much as we see terms such as “sustainability” and “green” in our everyday lives, government and industry are slow to take action investing in our future environment....