The lecture of the day was by Garri Raagmaa and it laid out how geography works on a population level and how it affects construction of buildings of the past and future. Definitely gave a lot of information about various cases around the country. From huge sports complexes that are located in small towns who don't have the resources to upkeep them to the problems with trying to keep new buildings under certain restrictions. The methods used for building under the Soviet control obviously do not work in the new Estonia, and many abandoned buildings are left from the Soviet legacy. From the lecture it is certain that construction projects come down to three things. Location, location, location.
After this, we went to the Paikuse Waste Products Center, which turned out to be the equivalent of the Keeweenaw's waste management facilities. This is where all the recycling and garbage is brought to be separated and sent to whatever locations they will be processed or disposed of. Definitely one of the more colorful locations on the trip, mostly because of piles of empty and broken glass bottles, along with cubes of what appeared to be dirty laundry. After this, we went to one of the five landfills in Estonia. There used to be more, but ten of the landfills were closed down a few years back to come under EU regulations. Soon, they hope that they won't even need to use landfills because they shall use the extra waste to produce energy, but that is still far into the future.
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