Month: September 2018

Some easy bike maintenance tips from the guy from Cycleworks:

• clean your chain about once a fortnight, any gunk that accrues will stretch the chain out over time
• use a track pump and pump your tyres up to the recommended amount once a week or so, will reduce chance of punctures
• check the brakes are ‘going’ together, that neither is sitting on the rim of the wheel, adjust the springs if not
• from time to time, check there’s no give in the pedal cranks or headset

At the manual sorting part of the tour of the recycling facility, the guide said “robots will never be able to replace the vision and dexterity of the human sorters”.

Things from the tour:

• starts off with bag splitters
• disc sorters to separate cardboard and paper out
• manual sorting to get as much plastic film out as possible, it clogs up the machines
• magnet sorter to get the aluminium cans outs (kind of looks like jumping salmon)
• optical sorter uses some kind of visual recognition and little jets of air to separate out plastic bottles

Everything is separated out into separate materials, and baled up before being sent (for cash) somewhere to use.

Got a bit of a bike workshop from Community Cycleworks – and learned they do a great Build a Bike workshop where they build bikes with and for the community from old donated/recycled bikes.

http://www.communitycycleworks.co.uk/build-a-bike/

Never put batteries in your household waste or recycling – they can cause explosions during processing.

A queue to see the recycling centre… that’s a good thing I guess

Off to Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility to see how the Materials Recovery Facility works as part of Open House #London.. that’s just how I roll https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/listings/5389

I’m embroiled in Laravel right now, and I like federated web apps – I’m thinking getting familiar the #pixelfed source code should be a great learning experience. https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed