{"id":922,"date":"2014-02-14T17:53:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sepiadesign.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:43:55","slug":"schmidt-proposes-vertical-solution-for-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/schmidt-proposes-vertical-solution-for-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vertical Solution for Hong Kong&#8217;s Waste Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/website-waste-disposal-section.jpg?resize=1000%2C907&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-846\" style=\"width:508px;height:461px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/website-waste-disposal-section.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/website-waste-disposal-section.jpg?resize=300%2C272&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Conceptual building section of Hong Kong Neighborhood Recycling Center prototype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hong Kong, 14 February 2014<\/strong> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Founder and Managing Director of <em>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/em>, <strong>Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP<\/strong>, unveiled a prototype for a vertically-arranged neighborhood recycling center for the dense neighborhoods of Hong Kong.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hong Kong based architect submitted the proposal to community leaders and the HKSAR Government.&nbsp; The prototype offers an alternative to the current system of refuse collection centers throughout Hong Kong, which involves direct transport of waste to the territory&#8217;s three overflowing landfills.  Schmidt&#8217;s proposal creates new one-stop satellite recycling and recovery centers at the community level, in order to divert as much material as possible away from the landfills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Community Service\" href=\"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/?page_id=844\">CLICK HERE FOR DETAILED PLANS OF THE PROPOSAL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:\u00a0 Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP <\/strong>is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\"><strong>Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/strong><\/a>, an award-winning design consultancy specializing in creative and sustainable design solutions for the hospitality industry.\u00a0 Schmidt is also author and illustrator of the award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kakibubu.com\"><em>Bumbling Traveller Adventure Series<\/em><\/a> which seeks to promote environmental and cultural awareness through entertaining mysteries and adventures, which was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) through a 2010 Chapter Citation.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong, 14 February 2014 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Founder and Managing Director of Sepia Design Consultants Limited, Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP, unveiled a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,6,61],"tags":[83,56,19],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-news","category-sustainability","tag-neighborhood-recycling","tag-sepia-design-consultants-limited","tag-thomas-schmidt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgwalJ-eS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}