Silver A' Design Award Winner 2021
Scanning from background to foreground, this rectangular image presents a sleek kitchen waste disposal and indoor gardening unit photographed against a seamless pale blue-gray backdrop that gradually lightens toward the upper portion, creating a sense of airy, open space. The primary object occupies the central-lower portion of the composition, an elongated horizontal unit approximately four times wider than it is tall, finished in pristine white with subtle warm undertones suggesting high-quality polymer or ceramic materials. The front face features elegant vertical ridges running from top to bottom, creating a texture that would feel like smooth, evenly-spaced grooves beneath fingertips, reminiscent of pleated fabric frozen in form. The top surface appears flat and smooth like polished stone, interrupted by three circular openings positioned in a row toward the right side, each containing dark brown growing medium with the texture of rich garden soil. From each circular opening emerges a pair of tiny seedlings, their leaves fresh spring green like new grass after rain, each plant approximately the size of a small coin, tender and delicate. Rising from the right side of the unit, a slender white vertical support extends upward, terminating in a horizontal light bar that stretches leftward over the planting area, casting cool white illumination downward like gentle morning light filtered through clouds. The light creates a soft, diffused glow visible as a subtle luminous area between the bar and the plants below. At the lower left of the unit, a small circular element suggests a control button or indicator. A thin white power cord extends from the lower right, trailing toward the bottom edge. The overall sensation is one of quiet technological elegance married with living organic elements.
They used a natural method of compost. They found that earthworms, as a common creature on the earth, are not only friends of crops, but also friends of humans. Life practice shows that vermicomposting is a kind of green composting method: earthworms convert food residues into agricultural fertilizer through their esophagus. This method of recycling reduces the additional cost of garbage collection, storage and transportation, and also makes food waste disposal easier.