This city is setting a new ‘green’ standard for the rest of the world
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Amsterdam has set for itself the bold goal of becoming the world's first circular city by 2050.
What is a circular city, exactly? It is one that redefines our traditional understanding of waste, seeing it not as an end product but as a resource to be utilized.
This means shifting away from the linear "take-make-waste" model that characterizes most cities today, and instead creating closed-loop systems where waste is continually repurposed, recycled, and reused.
As part of this plan, Amsterdam aims to halve the use of virgin raw materials by 2030, effectively reducing carbon emissions and increasing sustainability. Over 70 experimental projects have been launched, each focusing on various sectors such as construction, food, and consumer goods.
These initiatives are not without their challenges, but the city is proving that the path to a circular economy, though complex, is not only viable but a necessary step towards a sustainable future.
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Fantastic video. Some of my favorite content on youtube lately is watching the unique ways communities are figuring out how "trash" can be generated into usable materials, or prevent waste from occurring at all. For things to change in the US, I truly think its going to have to require a complete culture shift in the way we approach all sorts of stuff across the board.
We agree. Glad you liked the video! We hope to be part of that culture shift ❤️
Agreed!
Non of that is trash, in poorer nation that high grade material... this just for us rich nation citizen to feel better about ourself .. like plastic recycling scam that basically sending all non economical recycling material to poor nation and let them handle the environment cost , believe me helping poorer nation to grow instead of exploit them do more good to the planet than this BS project will every do..
@lenabanx6221 Watching this video shows the stark difference in mentality between other countries and the US. When most Americans insist on change and sustainability, they don’t look at it from a communal perspective. They focus on what other people need to sacrifice instead of on sacrificing or creating innovative solutions themselves.
The US is so politically and socially polarized for no reason. Every example in this video would be celebrated by most Americans if the division were replaced with common sense and logical solutions for circular sustainability. Younger people have blamed the older but most Americans over 55 were used to returning their glass bottles, going to the cobbler to get their shoes repaired, etc. They’d love to do this for clothing as well.
I love this kind of stuff but man, modern architectural building desing is so bland in comparison to previous generations architectural styles
Stop making me want to move here.😂
I wouldn't recommend you to go to The Netherlands due to the shortage of housing at the moment.
And since our cabinet has fallen the country is in a state of Limbo without a functioning government..
@@SiranoxzI sure that Netherlands right now It's better than Spain 😂🤣 so the chance will be always good 😂
Agreed
I just want this where I live
We have way too many expats and tourists in the city. As a result of this the city is less environmentally friendly than it could be.
@@AndresDCK We´ll have to see how the change will unfold the Dutch society and where its heading.
Can we please send that out to all the people sticking themselves to roads instead of actually helping solve the problem?
This is just a fraction of what i feel like we can be capable of (If we just put our minds to it! And the country supports it) it really makes me wish America would snap out of this funk that we are in and get our act together and really start innovating all our quality of life's. Right now our quality of life in America is so bland/unbalanced/dysfunctional system. We gotta improve. These people are just a sliver of a good example of what people are capable of doing if we just support it and let people figure things out instead of restricting them from doing or trying all this different unique stuff. It's a huge untapped potential here in America.
So I assume your American? I was wondering who this video was for as I feel so many principles are being incorporated into cities already...Im not judging Im an aussie and I know there is still a long way that we have to go to be more sustainable as our main profitable industries are not very sustainable on a global scale
Really amazing story telling and editing. Love that there are soo many initiatives to be more sustainable in Amerstadam. Hope more cities take on these practices!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video! We hope more cities try these initiatives out, too.
Great. However the water villas need many times more materials per square meter than an apartment building.
I am not saying these buildings are not nicer but poorer countries have been recycling materials for a long time
this is awesome! and I think these types of things are being done in many cities right now. in one way or another.
Beautifully crafted video. Great story.
Glad you enjoyed it! Would you want any of these ideas to come to your city?
All of them.
1. Sorry, did I get that correct, they only used "old" wood for façade decoration? Not processing it into building materials?
2. While making food for the community is an excellent deed, I still can suggest that at least part of the "discarded" products can be processed into meals, that can be safely deep frozen, and the other part can be frozen without processing, some meals can be canned, etc. All of those can become goods, that can be sold.
3. While an interesting approach to the design of recycled clothing is always awesome, sometimes it's simple things, that people need. Like, humble denim mat
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what is even your point? none of these 'gotcha's' add anything to anything
@@critiqueofthegothgf Silly you, because my opinion is highly valuable, of course.
Great video, you should do a montreal episode too.
9:50 'kind of the *circularity* of the neighborhood' is what he said, in case you wanted to fix the subtitles. It's not Dutch. He just says it weird.
even though this sounds amazing, it would be great if the buildings could adhere more to the local culture style wise. Right now most people see those buildings as ugly buildings, which will not support the general public to live like that. Not only that, we know from history that buildings that represent the local culture and are beautiful as well will be maintained and therefore it could be argued that these are more sustainable as these materials also reused generation upon generation. Furthermore, there are also more benefits when building beautiful, maybe interesting to make a video about it? Maybe you can get inspired by another RUclips channel like the aesthetic city?
not in the Netherlands though, most people here love old building and new futuristic buildings.
@@miles5600 Not sure were you got your information from, but I am dutch and I would never say that a significant group of dutch people love futuristic buildings. Furthermore, a research has been done that shows that historical buildings in the Netherlands tend to cost up to 12% more which further confirms this statement.
@@huubsmetsers8663 it’s not really about the cost here, it’s time, building with old architecture means needing more time to complete it which isn’t what homeowners want now a days, they want fast housing. I’ve asked a lot of people i know if they like futuristic designs and they all said yes, as long as the city has a mix of old and new buildings it’s fine
You don’t wanna end up having a city like Tokyo with little to no old buildings.
I’ve actually been working on this project. “ the cool print”
@@Zephyrsag What kind of project? Is it like a RUclips video highlighting the value of a buildings aesthetic?
I feel I knew most of these concepts already having had a sustainable mindset and a degree in sustainability...It is interesting that to ensure construction regulations it is still not very cost effective to use the circular method but Im glad that it is happening, hopefully that changes...
I totally felt the jeans concept...I have a favourite pair of jeans...they werent expensive I think they were $30 but I have had the zipper redone and had the back stitched as I had literally warn through the fabric after wearing them for 20 years...but I dont care as I have literally never found a pair that fits as well and I've tried on all levels of price it had nothing to do with it...
Poor sound guy. I can tell they are tired. They keep popping into the frame
i reinforce my denim between legs first after i get them ... now they hold for a whole year ...maybe even two years for a pair that i would wear 2-3 time a week!
these innovations are the hopes for the earth in the long run!
green people should note too how much time and effort it takes to salvage construction material etc..
>taking the paris agreement seriously
And this is why Holland is up a creek, hopefully their new government will stop this garbage and do the right thing
By what standard?
"... _for_ the rest of the world" is an overstatement. Little will change if not even many of the European countries can unite as one itselv! Before trying to *set* yet another standard *try* to actually bring at least one of the other set standards to an actual standard!
People aren't happy already and it will reach a point when regulations about carbon footprint will not matter anymore.
This is great! Sharing with my adult children.
When resources are scarce, circularity is often mandatory. Go to poorer cities and you’ll see how things are recycled more often and waste is significantly reduced.
Recycled wood, paper straws and paper bags wont save our cities from bad land use. Most cities were bulldozed for the car in America, and reverting those changes will take a long time.
What was the name of the jeans company that does repair for its customers, I fought Patagonia but not their company
Levi's jeans has a Repair, Reimagine, Recycle program: www.levi.com/US/en_US/blog/article/repair-reimagine-recycle. The company we covered in this video is House of Denim. Check out their mission here: www.houseofdenim.org/mission
That's really awesome 😎
Dang I learn so much about my own city from RUclips lol
Way forward!👏
Really depend on how the wood are “recycled”. Usage of adhesive to rebind woodchip or to make composite materials are not the healthiest thing you want to be living around.
Another point, we really have no idea of lowering the temp will actually do anything. I mean, it’s our theory. And basically we’re testing it out, and whoever wants to take it up. Imagine we’re way pass the tipping point but not aware about it coz we were taking the wrong measurements.
But good effort al round. Hope it takes off.
Wow awesome
I have lived for the last 6 months in Amsterdam and this might sound like a great project, but in the end only super rich people will live in this area. And on a site note, Amsterdam should first focus on their normal trash. The normal rubbish collection doesn't even work.
Why all those plastic bags? :(. 9:47
My only worry about that reused wood is hidden mold. You can't necessarily see it on visual inspection.
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Pascal has big Kenergy
Lovable buildings last longer. When you build ugly postmodern stuff you’re not building green
LOL He just basically said, "well it's more expensive because we haven't made the alternative/competition more expensive though taxation" What a concept. It won't be considered expensive if everything is made expensive. lol
Kinda cool how the architect sees that through his eyes.
Instead of having a wood market for second hand use, that's now the builder's cost to source the material.
Everything in the current pipeline is cost cut already with steady deliveries. Any change is going to be more expensive in comparison.
He's kind of right though - in the UK refurbishment is subject to VAT (21%) whereas new build is not, so often it's cheaper to build new rather than to refurbish an existing building. There's been talk of equalising the rate for both at 10-11% for a long time but I don't think anything has come of it.
@@malcolmrose3361 this is part of why we have housing shortages in all attractive countries. They incentivize new buildings over refurbishing the old. New structures look at profitability potential which is greater for more complex new housing than older adaptable structures. If you look at incentives on meeting demand with "new" structures it makes financial sense to throw out the old and replace with new, usually shoddier than the original construction. This is a net loss that generates much waste, unnecessary disruption and harvesting of new resources which is not an improvement in most cases. It generates GDP but it comes at the expense of many other resources that are subsized by the public.
see.... this is what happen if ur govermeent not alwaysthinking about money all the time
Nice concept, but more flammable. I wouldn't want to live or work in it. Steel and concrete would be better.
Cross laminated lumber is actually safer to an extent. Skyscrapers been made with this form of lumber. Concrete needs rebar to retain its shape and cold weather to solidify.
Depends where you live. I grew up in the UK where brick and mortar is common. I now live in NZ where houses are mostly wood construction and I happy that the house shakes a bit during a quake but damage is limited to the odd cracked window pane. Fit smoke detectors and sleep peacefully.
Nice initiatives...I hope the repair centre doesn't exploit the immigrant tailors...they may come as cheap labour disguised as a social good ..my thoughts
My jeans will last forever, because it is fashionable to have ripped jeans. People pay big money for ripped jeans.
Yeah right, You mean 'tactically'ripped jeans , not mine that wear off right under my butt.
It would be better to fully recycle the garment of your jeans.
In Netherlabds ('Saxcell') and Finland are pilots of scaling up with methods of fully recycling old textile ton new garment , by dissolutting old garments to cellulose pulp and to turn it in high quality threads.
20% of global water waste and similar of chemical use are related to fashion industry ( pesticides, dying).
This kind of textiles recycling would really make a difference .
Lets always do alot of good and invite others to do the same
If only investors and slumlord didn't straight up killed the housing market over there... 😅
Sadly the architecture is horrendously ugly compared to the traditional architecture of Amsterdam
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All my jeans have a hole in the crotch...
I am not seeing the issue here.
0:35 I don’t think a fully circular city is possible unless it’s shrinking.
This video is full of controversy. Going full circular is nor scalable or sustainable. Materials that are 100% recyclable-steel, glass, eps. Wood is not, i.e. much less. Rescuing food with disposable plastic gloves? Glorifying a large-scale tailor service for doing what craftsmen have been doing for centuries… all while Holland’s main industries are
Agriculture, oil and natural gas, metal and engineering products, electronic machinery and equipment, chemicals, petroleum, construction, microelectronics, fishing (Wikipedia).
Most disposable gloves are recyclable to some degree. You can grow wood, it even captures atmospheric carbon as it does it. Their country has always been good for agriculture and the more food they can produce locally the less they need to import, which is better for the environment. True fossil fuels are big on their list alongside other chemical industries but they also are doing a lot to transition to renewable energy sources. Manufacturing electronics and equipment in a modern world is bad why? We want European nations to start producing stuff closer to home to reduce the amount of goods shipped from China (both for political and environmental reasons). 3D printing ( a big Dutch industry) is being pushed as the manufacturing technique to revitalise western manufacturing, and it can do that using some greener methods that produce less waste. The materials can be recycled too. Making fresh metal or using recycled metal? Because if they're using recycled metal where possible then it's not really an issue.
@@kev2034 Hahahaha We still able to even insert China into this conversation ..... This nothing more than feel good project so rich country citizen like us can feel better. just providing more efficient wood fire stove to poor nation will do more that this BS project combine, similar like this Bike revolution BS but in reality Netherlands still one of the most car per capita in the world....
@@kev2034 anyone can find arguments for anything nowadays. It’s the information-rich world we live in. I am being critical because imo there are much more important things to do (and report on) than the things described in this video. You mention some very worthy endeavors which I totally support. Unfortunately, this video is not about those :) therefore, my criticism is focused on the video, not the entire country of Netherlands (which I do like a lot btw:)
Gimmick
I haven't seen any trees yet
Maybe go outside for a bit?