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Worm in Rotterdam is a night club built from 80-90% recycled materials. I love the Dutch.
Rico Gagliano's NPR interview with Worm's CFO, Mike Van Gaasbeek:
The club's toilets are made of old oil barrels. The door handles are re-used bike handlebars. Even the ventilation pipes were salvaged from a demolished office building. The club's walls are made of recycled real estate signs. Van Gaasbeek refers the materials used to build Worm as "upcycled, because it's having a better life. It was in a dull office building, and now it's in a cool club."
Mike Van Gaasbeek spent 300 euro per square meter building the space. "Normally you spend 1,500 euros a square meter. But the idea wasn't just to save money. Worm is Rotterdam's most vivid example of an idea called "sustainable clubbing" — night spots minimizing waste and energy use."
Michel Smit works for a startup company called De Sustainable Dance Club; "An average club uses 150 times the energy that a normal family of three people uses a year. If you look at water, it's 170 times. If you add those things up, there's a lot to gain in clubbing."
Michel's goal: to open a Rotterdam club that uses every energy-saving resource available, including the clubgoers themselves. "Certain materials produce electricity when squeezed. So a dance floor can become one big generator. We've called it "harvest your energy." With the electricity-generating dance floor, we're trying to use that power that you've got to power the lights."
Rico Gagliano's NPR interview with Worm's CFO, Mike Van Gaasbeek:
The club's toilets are made of old oil barrels. The door handles are re-used bike handlebars. Even the ventilation pipes were salvaged from a demolished office building. The club's walls are made of recycled real estate signs. Van Gaasbeek refers the materials used to build Worm as "upcycled, because it's having a better life. It was in a dull office building, and now it's in a cool club."
Mike Van Gaasbeek spent 300 euro per square meter building the space. "Normally you spend 1,500 euros a square meter. But the idea wasn't just to save money. Worm is Rotterdam's most vivid example of an idea called "sustainable clubbing" — night spots minimizing waste and energy use."
Michel Smit works for a startup company called De Sustainable Dance Club; "An average club uses 150 times the energy that a normal family of three people uses a year. If you look at water, it's 170 times. If you add those things up, there's a lot to gain in clubbing."
Michel's goal: to open a Rotterdam club that uses every energy-saving resource available, including the clubgoers themselves. "Certain materials produce electricity when squeezed. So a dance floor can become one big generator. We've called it "harvest your energy." With the electricity-generating dance floor, we're trying to use that power that you've got to power the lights."
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