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The total quantity of waste produced by Belgian households amounts to only one tenth of what the industry produces during the same period ^[1] .

Just like the households, the companies have come under considerable pressure to reduce the amount of waste they produce, either through prevention, or by developing strategies that allow a use of the produced waste. A substantial part of the industrial waste is recycled, other wastesstreams are incinerated to produce thermal energy, or used for landfill.

These techniques are easiely applyable on a large scale, but they have their drawbacks. Recycling calls for a significant energetic investment in order to obtain a useful material. In incineration only some of the energy contained in the materialcan be recuperated, the caracteristics of the raw material are entirely lost. In the series of eco-friendly waste-processing techniques, there is one that, unjustly, receives only poor attention: re-use.

When waste is re-used it lives another life that is identical or similar to the one for which the product or material was initially destinated. The processing requires only limited external energy supply. When potentially re-useable waste or ‘left-overs’ are actually employed by another company, one does not only avoid squandering: both parties eventually take benefit. The waste-producer avoids the substantial cost for disposal or incineration, while the re-user obtains an almost costless raw material. Based on these considerations, we created Rotor, a platform for the endorsement of industrial waste re-use. Rotor wants to encourage contacts between producers of “interesting” waste and potential re-users from the field of industry, design, architecture and education.

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rotordata is a beta-project of Rotor

The aim of this website is to give an extensive overview of the archetypes of wasted materials as an illustration of the potential they contain.

It is not the aim of Rotordata to describe the use, history or processing of the materials, only information that helps understanding why and when this material is wasted at a certain point in it's life is collected.

This website is under devellopment for the moment: spelling and content may be far from satisfying. If you are interested in joining forces in this experiment, you can create an account that will allow you to add content to the database.