1. Boysen KNOxOUT (air cleaning paint)
The world's first air cleaning public air project was held on May 7, 2012 in the Philippines. Boysen KNOxOUT, a special paint from Boysen, is able to filter out nitrogen oxides (NOx), one of the principal air pollutants. This paint not only reduces the air pollutants present in our country, but also makes our streets and city roadways more appealing and attracting to the human eyes. For this project, they have commissioned curators and artists to the paint job.
Why Boysen KNOxOUT?
The paint contains chemicals that reacts with light and water vapor. It absorbs energy from sunlight and transforms ordinary water vapor to into free radicals that can breakdown NOx air pollutants that comes in contact with the paint’s surface. The whole cycle involves an environment friendly process called Photocatalysis. The Photocatalysis process allows the paint to sustain its ability to clean air. The paint chemicals involved in the reaction are not consumed; they act as catalysts only, allowing it to continuously generate free radicals with sufficient sunlight, air and moisture. The project aims to produce eight massive murals, measuring about 1,000 square foot each, on eight different locations along the streets of EDSA. This means that each artwork is expected purify the emission of 10,000 cars everyday, significantly reducing air pollution.
PROS:
PROS:
- Cooperated with Cristal Global
- Crystal Active (the substance used) helps reduce pollution
- It has titanium dioxide with destroys NOX (nitrogen oxide)
- It’s been around since the 1970s
- It is stabilized and can be used as paints and for building materials
- Destroys ultraviolet lights
- Destroys bacteria like e-coli and MRSA (benefits also the medical field)
- For Project EDSA:
- Cooperated with PureTi, Alcoa, Toto
- Air purifier
- It is an urban renewal project collaborated with 10 artists, engineers, chemists, painters.
- Artistic and yet helpful to the environment
2. Electric Jeepneys (e-jeepneys)
The Philippines has launched the largest electric public transport fleet in South-East Asia with its first commercial franchise of electric jeepneys (e-jeepneys) — an environmentally friendly version of a popular vehicle originally made from US military jeeps left over from World War II. The move, which took place at the beginning of the month of March 2012, is being seen as helping to raise the awareness of changing our transport systems into more eco-friendly mass transport systems. Diesel-powered jeepneys, most widely seen as 'smoke-belchers' have been known to be one of the biggest sources of air pollution in our country. It is also the most popular public transportation in the Philippines, and have become a symbol of Philippine culture.
The first locally produced e-jeepney was launched in 2008, and started to transport passengers for free in Makati in 2009. The non-governmental organisation Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (iCSC) secured funding from the UK government through its South-East Asia Prosperity Fund to build and operate the first e-jeepney fleet battery swapping station, which Red Constantino, director of climate policy, said is the key to making the operation of e-jeepneys commercially viable.
The first locally produced e-jeepney was launched in 2008, and started to transport passengers for free in Makati in 2009. The non-governmental organisation Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (iCSC) secured funding from the UK government through its South-East Asia Prosperity Fund to build and operate the first e-jeepney fleet battery swapping station, which Red Constantino, director of climate policy, said is the key to making the operation of e-jeepneys commercially viable.
At the battery station, an e-jeepney goes into a loading bay where the spent battery is taken off and replaced with a charged one. The entire process takes about ten minutes. A fully charged jeepney runs for eight hours, and charging batteries can take six to eight hours. Replacing spent batteries with fully charged ones costs 220 pesos (about US$5) and allows 115 kilometres of travel, according to iCSC. In comparison, a driver of a diesel-fed jeepney would have to pay more than 1,200 pesos (more than US$28) to cover the same distance.
The iCSC is now working to expand the e-jeepney to three other cities and is negotiating with local governments to provide routes, and entrepreneurs to provide the battery charging stations.
The iCSC is now working to expand the e-jeepney to three other cities and is negotiating with local governments to provide routes, and entrepreneurs to provide the battery charging stations.