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• jackbird commented on Customizable shipping container for the Caribbean
  #2, check out www.intl-disaster.com . They make housing and medical self-contained units, as well as stacking large numbers of them into larger buildings (although no pics or renderings of those on their site, unfortunately). The idea is more along the lines of easily-shippable disaster relief housing than recycling waste materials in situ, though, as the interior photos look decidedly government contractor comfy/bland rather than green architect minimalist/funky....
• Quibbler commented on Customizable shipping container for the Caribbean
  Unlike the US of A the Caribbean does not import all its stuff from China. It also seems to me that the shippers seem fairly desperate to get back their container to be stuffed with rum, bananas and cocaine for the return journey. The only loose containers I see are ones that have obviously passed their useful life or have been damaged - in fact their is one outside my office right now looking ugly and distinctly seaworthy....
• silverflame commented on Customizable shipping container for the Caribbean
  The idea of using this as an environmentally based project has been used by several people over the last 6/7 years at the university I attend, all with similar outcomes and I've seen similar projects being released from other uk universities. It seems that every year somone tries to cut in with "their brand new, environmentally friendly" idea based around these containers whilst all the work released is almost identical. With this project it's nothing I haven't seen before and it's a shame people try to pass it off as original....
• markman commented on Customizable shipping container for the Caribbean
  this quote caught my eye: "Shipping containers that land in Caribbean ports are treated as waste because it's not worth anyone's while to ship them out again." Years ago someone told me that the empty shipping containers going back to China from Oakland quite frequently were just dropped into the ocean because unloading them in china would cost too much and would take too much time. I did not believe it back then but now after reading this I think it is true....
• Oren Beck commented on Customizable shipping container for the Caribbean
  There's a set of presumed realities that become displacing of the truths. The presumptions about the cargo boxes need some FAQ checking. Sadly there's several reasons for us not to trust in objective honesty about those things which endanger the status quo. Housing profiteers have reason to fear change. Even if the economic artificial factors about these cargo boxes are not sustainable. The danger is creating another "Cargo Cult." One sweeping a nation with less factory REAL capacity than the original "Cargo Cult" tribes had.....