SCRAPYARDS UNITED

Nesting local scrap metal cycles in a national network - ZH2050

Student report (2022)

Authors

T. Bollen Architecture and the Built Environment
J. van Driesum Architecture and the Built Environment
M.M. Fagalde Architecture and the Built Environment
M.A. KAPERONI Architecture and the Built Environment
Y. Su Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

L. Qu Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
L.M. Calabrese Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
K.B.J. Van den Berghe Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2022 Thomas Bollen, Joost van Driesum, Madeleine Fagalde, AGAPI KAPERONI, Yuqian Su
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Published Date

06-04-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Steel is a widely used and very circular material, it can be recycled endlessly but that consumes a lot of energy, therefore, it is one of the most polluting industries in the world. Only 2% of this pollution is caused by production, the other 98% is caused by transportation during the production and recycling process. Half of the pollution caused by transport is by export en import of scrap metal from and to the port of Rotterdam to Asian and African countries, this also creates geo-dependency on non-EU countries for essential materials. We will use research through design approach, quantitative (LISA data and Openstreetmap data) and qualitative methods such as research on the steel cycle, scrapyard activities, stakeholders, and social and spatial environment. The main objective is to reduce the logistic effort by closing loops more locally by creating a network of bigger and smaller hubs and reinstalling makers- and manufacturing industries around the hubs in a symbiotic relationship. Hereby we aim to move metal recycling higher up in the R-ladder of circularity. Different socio-spatial, techno-economic and governmental strategies should make scrapyards more attractive and interesting locations and intertwine them more into the urban tissue. Hereford, they should attract makers- and manufacturing industries around the scrapyards to form a symbiosis in the use of metal and scrap metal. Simultaneously, this increases dutch manufacturing and increases the local economy and decreases geo-dependency. The end of the report provides a set of strategies that can be applied to scrapyards throughout the country to improve the locations and the network between them. This project can form a precedent, both for other bigger industrial or port cities in Europe, as well as for different material flows.