Engineers For The Community

Description

Join an engineering event to brainstorm better solutions for local issues and build them! Our volunteer-led organization, Recycled Living, is a group of Portlanders who want to build a better Portland. At this event, we will look at engineering specifically.

We are seeing how two issues we care about, houselessness and recycling, can benefit from a single united solution. What if we could expand our dysfunctional recycling system by transforming unrecyclable plastic into building materials for tiny home villages in Portland? Could we create better supportive housing solutions for our unhoused neighbors by recycling free plastic waste into unique building materials?

Waterproof, nondegradable materials that could either sit in the landfill for a thousand years, or on the side of someone's home.

We have already received thousands of pounds of plastic that was headed to the landfill, raised funding, made prototype plastic materials, and amassed a team of volunteers. Now, we will move beyond prototyping and brainstorm what we need to do to make this idea a reality.

Come to meet other interested engineers who care about our city.