ART BEAT OF… WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste is where my illustration adventure began with Waste Wizard Doodles, On a train to a waste convention. I needed to remember some technical details about the meetings I was going to so picked up a pencil and scribbled them down. while unrecognisable now, those original scribbles evolved into what I am now proud to share and hope will provide a way to start conversations about waste management with people who wouldn't’ normally bother engaging.
Based on the needs of my professional career, these illustrations are underpinned by two environmental degrees, almost a decade in the waste sector, and a curiosity that has kept me up until the early hours of the morning on many occasion.
Waste codes
The Basel convention has a special place in my heart as its what started my illustration off. there are a number of annexes and reports that use a huge number of codes to refer to waste types, hazard properties, disposal operations… so i though it might be a bit more memorable it it was brightly coloured and a bit more fun.
Hazard classes
Inspired by the Basel annex 3, but using the UN transport hazard codes to include the extra that are missing, these hazard cones visualise the hazards associated with each code
The Trash T-rex
My illustrations got noticed by children, so now there are a series of dinosaurs helping with household recycling… and a street somewhere with bins with matching dinosaur stickers for each house.
The forever chemicals
The Stockholm convention is the international convention that covers persistent organic pollutants. These are nasty chemicals that out stay their welcome and are harmful to human health and the environment. there are a number of these chemicals that have been used in the past before we realised just how bad they were for the planet. the Stockholm convention aims to ban/restrict their production and use. these are nasty chemicals… just look at their mean little peepers…