PEM Badge: Waste Streams

Waste Streams
instruction, regulation, insurance, safety, etc

Reducing the amount of "stuff" that comes into our household is the best way to reduce waste.  The next best thing is to do something with that "waste" other than sending it to the dump or sewer. Let's experiment with ways to upcycle, reuse and recycle our "waste" into something useful.

Sand badge

5 points required
- Build a single section compost bin - 1 point
- Build a small compost tumbler - 1 point
- Build a large compost tumbler (200+ gallons) - 3 points
- System to collect and distribute pee to growies year round - 1 point
- Make a vermicompost bin - 1 point
- Glass into:
      - Cut bottles to become vessels - 1/2 point
      - Crush to make gravel - 1/2 point
      - Seedling pots with drains - 1/2 point
      - Containing new homebrew - 1/2 point
- Paper/newspaper into:
      - Fire starting materials - 1/2 point
      - Make new paper from it - 2 points
      - Make seedling pots - 1/2 point
- Brown cardboard into:
      - Worm food for vermicomposting - 1/2 point
      - Sheet mulch material - 1/2 point
      - Bookcase or other furniture - 1 point
      - Chicken/fowl nest boxes - 1/2 point
- Aluminum into:
     - Any of the PEA "pop can projects" count here
- Plastic into:
      - Scoop - 1/2 point
      - Self watering pot - 1/2 point
- Repackage partially used paint into smaller containers and copy label - 1/2 point  
- Install a hand washing station that uses toilet fill water above the toilet tank - 1 point
- Build a hand washing station that uses toilet fill water above the toilet tank - 2 points
- Use a bucket of water from a shower (PEP) - 1/2 point
- Create a level 1 pee spot (PEP) - 1 point

Straw badge
Get 35 points - new Sand items allowed
- Advanced recycling/upcycling
     - Glass into wall building materials - 3 points
     - Aluminum cans into a useful object like tiles, plant markers, signs, etc - 2 point
     - Cans into a solar air heater - 4 points
     - Plastic into diesel or some other fuel - 4 points
     - Waste cooking oil into biodiesel - 2 points
- Humanure stuff
      - 2+ bin humanure composting system - 4 points
      - Make a compost toilet cabinet for a receptacle - 2 points
      - Replace a conventional toilet with a compost toilet cabinet - 2 points
      - Develop a humanure composting system that composts year round in a very cold climate - 16 points
- Create a level 2 pee spot (PEP) - 4 points
- Create a level 3 pee spot (PEP) - 6 points
- Create a level 4 pee spot (PEP) - 8 points
- Set up a compost toilet and humanure composting system for a public event - 20 points
- Take a compost toilet to a fair or public event for public use - 8 points
- Build a small cold-climate greywater-fed mulch pit (PEP) - 5 points
  - 2’ diameter by 4’ deep hole, deposition chamber and plant two kinds of poop beasts
- Build a large cold-climate greywater-fed mulch pit (PEP) -  10 points
  - 4’ diameter by 8’ deep hole, deposition chamber and plant three kinds of poop beasts
- Plumb an outdoor sink to drain to a mulch pit (PEP) - 2 points
- Plumb a greywater fixture (sink, shower, washer, etc.) to drain to a mulch pit (PEP) - 4 points
- Make an outdoor willow feeder system that has stationary cans - 8 points
        - Intended for light use
        - Seat attaches to can
        - Vented with black pipe up a tall tree (for all in-use and resting cans)
        - Internal pipe for air intake and desiccation near the bottom of the can
- Build a large composting 3 bin system - 3 points