{"id":402,"date":"2016-12-12T23:27:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/?p=402"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T05:43:27","slug":"reuse-market-good-for-students-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/?p=402&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Reuse Market: Good for students and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the annual Reuse Market, students can receive used appliances and goods donated by\u00a0students who have graduated and left the university. In 2016, over 200,000 JPY (2,000 USD) worth of goods have been distributed to students on a pay-what-you-want basis.\u00a0The Recycling Club<\/a> recounts what goes into planning and organizing the event, and how it became what it is today.<\/p>\n

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“It started when I was an intern in March 2013 and I was stunned by all the\u00a0things were being thrown away, even though they were in great\u00a0shape”, recounts Felix von Drigalski, founder and current head of the group. “It turns out that all the graduating students move out in March and have to clean out their rooms. Afterwards, all the new students arrive in April and have to furnish them again\u00a0from scratch. There was no way\u00a0to pass things on to the newly arriving students. It was very\u00a0wasteful and I figured we had to do something about it.<\/p>\n

“At first we were just a Facebook Group<\/a>\u00a0who collected useful things like curtains and microwaves, offered them to incoming exchange students and maintained a few shared public\u00a0bikes. The group is still active and supplies new students regularly, but in 2015,\u00a0we took things further. We asked for storage space from NAIST and ran the 1st Reuse Market event.<\/p>\n

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Queue at the 2nd Reuse Market event, held in 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We emailed all of the graduating students and offered to collect anything\u00a0they wanted to donate from their rooms in March. Then, we announced\u00a0a date in early April\u00a0when\u00a0all of the new students could come by and pick up whatever they liked. It was a big success with over 150,000 JPY\u00a0worth of things being redistributed for free, and saved a lot of unnecessary waste.”<\/p>\n

What kind of things are\u00a0being donated? “The bulk is furniture and appliances like fridges, microwaves and washing machines, but\u00a0we also get guitars, TVs and all kinds of household goods. We are especially happy about bikes, because while they are in high demand by exchange students, it is often unfeasible\u00a0to buy one for a short stay. All the bikes we receive are either lent to visiting\u00a0students or open\u00a0to everyone on campus.”<\/p>\n

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A small number of the happy people receiving items at the Reuse Market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Reuse Market is held yearly between April 1st and 15th. Apart from organizing the Reuse Market, the Recycling Club lends out bikes and supplies short-term exchange students all year round on its Facebook Group<\/a>. More information about the club’s activities and contact information can be found at its\u00a0website at naistrecycling.tk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the annual Reuse Market, students can receive used appliances and goods donated by\u00a0students who have graduated and left the university. In 2016, over 200,000 JPY (2,000 USD) worth of goods have been distributed to students on a pay-what-you-want basis.\u00a0The Recycling Club recounts what goes into planning and organizing the event, and how it became … Continue reading Reuse Market: Good for students and the environment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,15,30],"tags":[68,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vsp.naist.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}