Meet the Food You Eat - Meet the Food You Eat is a scale that measures a food product’s environmental impact. It looks at the carbon emitted as a result of transporting the food and measures this in terms of how many trees would be required to offset that carbon over one year.
The scale reads food objects via RFID tag - The scale works by looking at the carbon emitted by transporting a particular product from it’s country of origin to Denmark. Place an RFID tagged product on the appropriate arm and try to balance the scale with the tree shaped weights.
Trees made of glass and acrylic act as weights - The amount of trees used to balance the scale represents the number of actual trees it would take to offset that product’s carbon emissions over one year. This part of the scale uses a load cell sensor from a hacked digital Ikea scale.
Exhibiting the scale - As an exhibition piece, this scale will raise questions about the food you buy, where it comes from and how it is transported. With a subject as complex as carbon emissions and the global food economy, our scale is only an entry point and is intended to raise more questions than it will answer.
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