"Low Carbon Is Right Beside You" - The Low Carbon Story Of World Expo, Shanghai

In 2010, World Expo, Shanghai, "low carbon" elements, such as scattered pearls in general, can be seen everywhere.

The abandoned milk Tetra Pak box was pformed into a rest deck chair for the roadside tourists and a separate classified trash bin. The chairs made of discarded cork, rope and fiber in the pavilion tell visitors the story of "treasure"; the packaging used for beverage packaging is made up of up to 30% of the plant material.

The "low carbon" story of these commodities reveals us that low carbon is around you.

According to the insiders, it is necessary to promote the promotion of low carbon as a conscious act of enterprises in a large-scale way. We need to promote the concept of low carbon in order to achieve the "scale effect" of low-carbon industries.

Low carbon life: wisdom of "cherish"

The appearance of the Brazil Pavilion in World Expo in 2010 was built of yellow green and two colored reused wood.

The design idea, known as the "green bird nest", comes from a famous chair in Brazil, the "Fa la la" chair.

On the LCD screen of the welcome area of Brazil Pavilion, the audience can see this chair - it is made of broken wood with many different shapes, and it is "not good looking, but it is very practical and comfortable, and can observe the artistic beauty of it carefully."

The head of the Brazil Pavilion said, "it is conveying an important low-carbon wisdom to the audience - treasure."

The "Fa la la" originally refers to the slum area in Brazil.

In Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, St Paul and other big cities, there were densely built slums, where chaos was built on the mountains, and many alleys between houses were intertwined with aerial wires.

Inspired by this, the designer made use of abandoned cork, rope and fiber to make this highly messy, but soft and comfortable chair, and named it "a chair for slums".

The "treasure" in the "chairs of the slums" is endowed with new meaning not only for the recycling of building materials, but also for the development of new values in seemingly ordinary things.

This wisdom of "treasure" can be observed in many details of Expo Park.

Around the entrance of the Expo site and around the venues, the benches, as well as the distinctive classification trash cans, are all made from the waste milk box "pform" - the Tetra Pak packaging used for the recycling of milk, coffee, soymilk and other drinks. After high technology processing, "turning waste into treasure" and realizing the recycling of resources.

According to the relevant personnel of the Expo Bureau, the 1000 benches in the Expo site are entirely made of milk boxes. Each 1 meter long stool will cost 856 250 milliliters of milk beverage paper, and more than 4000 trash bins will be made from at least 100 thousand milk boxes.

In the city's best practice area, London's "zero carbon Pavilion", the elements of "green life in London" were packaged into 26 suitcases and brought to Shanghai to inspire the wisdom of "cherish". One of the boxes was a colorful puppy, a small torch for eyes, a toy motorcycle cap for a nose, and a leftover wire ball for "fuzz". The whole puppy was made from waste materials from inside to outside.

There is also a box playing a "carbon reduction song" called "go to work" carbon "gently"; some boxes publicize "go to work to climb the building, cool type"; "eat more fruits and vegetables, youthful"; "less print, more green"...

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Low carbon economy: the guidance of "planning"

Approaching the London Expo "zero carbon Pavilion", visitors will see two small buildings with unique shapes. The roof adopts sloping design. The southern slope is a clear solar cell with a total of 65 blocks. The north slope is a bright glass window, and the windows are filled with bright green sky vegetation.

These aesthetically pleasing designs have their unique energy saving functions: the rooftop wind flexibly rotating multicolored "wind caps", sending fresh air into the interior of the building and discharging the indoor air. The solar energy and the "river water source" system dehumidification and cooling the air entering the room; the wall surface is coated with a special fluorescent coating, which can store solar energy during the day, and release the fluorescence at night, so that the entire Pavilion will become a "luminous house".

Chen Shuo, the coordinator of zero carbon Pavilion, believes that the concept of "zero carbon" residence should not only be enjoyed during the 6 months held in World Expo, but should become a way of thinking for people, and the consciousness of "zero carbon" should be penetrated into every corner of life through World Expo.

In London, the concept of "low carbon" is not only in the stage of conceptual display.

London development officials told reporters that Londoners clearly knew that the garbage they produced every hour could fill up a standard swimming pool for the Olympic Games.

To this end, the closed loop plant in dagham, London, circulated 35 thousand tons of plastic bottles annually.

At the same time, London actively promotes the reprocessing and recycling of commercial and industrial wastes. By 2018, this project will help London reduce 280 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions and 600 thousand tons of landfill capacity each year.

Kang Dawei, a climate change and energy counselor of the British Embassy in China, said London has a close relationship with London's scientific system planning and development.

For example, in the development of green buildings, the 2004 London plan requires new buildings to be included in 10% of renewable energy, and this index increased to 20% in 2007.

Kang Dawei said: "the latest draft plan has removed this specific goal, but requires a higher overall emission reduction level."

Insiders pointed out that the development of low-carbon economy, scientific planning guidance and positive policy incentives will be an important responsibility of the government.

Low carbon industry: the power of action

In Expo Park Coca-Cola "happy workshop", all visitors can get a Coca-Cola version of a limited edition "plant environmental protection bottle".

Turn the bottle cap of the "plant environmental protection bottle" lightly, open it quickly, turn it upside down quickly, turn the bottle upside down quickly, and turn it back again. Miraculous things happen.

This "plant environmental protection bottle" is made up of up to 30% of the plant material, and it can be recycled and recycled 100%.

However, the bottle of "small size and big secret" can only exist in Expo Park and can not be promoted to the market. The reason is that Wang Min, marketing manager of Coca Cola Co Expo Group, said: "the market of environmental protection plant materials is not big enough to produce scale effect. The cost of" plant environmental protection bottle "can not be controlled until it can be widely promoted to the market.

As early as the end of April, Coca Cola Co launched another environmental protection bottle for China's market -- "ice dew" environmental protection lightweight bottle.

The bottle body weighs only 9.8 grams, which can reduce 35% of carbon emissions and 70% of the recycling space.

"However, compared with the" green bottle ", the light bottle has its shortcomings. The bottle body is softer, and it has more challenges in the process of overall packaging and pportation.

Wang Min said, "in order to support environmental protection, people must give in to the hardness of the bottle.

It needs environmental protection and low carbon concept to support people's consumption behavior.

The retail area of Coca-Cola Pavilion also provides RPET environmental protection recycled materials such as T-shirts, hats and environmental bags.

RPET is a recycled material made from recycled Coca-Cola beverage bottles by grinding, spinning and blending processes.

Wang Yanfeng, director of Coca-Cola Expo project, told reporters that the price of these green T-shirts is up to 120 yuan, mainly due to cost factors.

"Low carbon industries need to be industrialized to achieve scale effect and cost reduction. Everyone needs support."

We believe that this day will not come too far. "

Wang Yanfeng said.

Experts say that in order to truly achieve scale and achieve "wealth effect", low-carbon industries need planning guidance and policy guidance, and more importantly, everyone needs action support.

Only then can we describe China's true "low carbon wealth story" and let the Expo's inspiration lead us to the future of low-carbon life.