plantable

plantable by jangho kim from korea

designer's own words:

story_ The annual quantity of food wastes in Korea is 4,767,975 ton, which amounts to 600,000 units of 8-ton truck and to EURO 8.5 billion economic value. Food wastes create special bad smell in the process of discharge, collection, transportation, and treatment, so they cause the pollution of water and soil in the process of fermentation and oxidation. 70% of food wastes come from homes.
Concept_
Plantable is a cooking table that recycles food wastes into electric energy and then, uses. It is possible to recycle food wastes into energy and then use it for cooking a new food or for maintaining the high or the low temperature of a meal on a table.
Benefit_ Through the technology of changing food wastes into energy, about 1-ton food wastes can generate the electricity that 10 homes can use. By use of the technology of changing food wastes into electric and thermal energy, it is possible to reduce the quantity of food wastes that are discharged from homes and reclaimed, to save energy resources, and further, to reduce the discharge of carbon dioxide.
Size_ 1.8m * 0.9m * 0.65m

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