plantscraper

English

Etymology

From plant +‎ -scraper.

Noun

plantscraper (plural plantscrapers)

1. A tower used for indoor farming; a farmscraper.
   • 2012 December 31, Sean Poulter, “The plant skyscrapers: Giant greenhouses in city centres to herald a new age of farming”, in Daily Mail‎, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 December 2022:

     Birds Eye and other food producers are investigating building 'plantscrapers', which could accommodate hundreds of storeys worth of crops, in a bid to make farming more economical, sustainable and meet increasing demand.

   • 2017 November 18, Leanna Garfield, “This $40 million robotic 'plantscraper' will feed over 5,000 people per year”, in Business Insider‎, New York, N.Y.: Insider Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 April 2021:

     A Swedish food-tech company called Plantagon is proposing that cities consider building what it calls "plantscrapers" — office towers that contain giant indoor farms. Plantagon is constructing its first plantscraper in Linköping, Sweden.

2. A tall residential building covered in plants.
   • 2018 August 25, Greg Callaghan, “Why plantscrapers are springing up across the globe”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎, Sydney, NSW: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 December 2023:

     You could be forgiven for imagining the striking towers of One Central Park on Sydney's Broadway, whose north and west facades are smothered with up to 40,000 indigenous plants, are a one-off exercise in urban environmentalism, designed for apartment dwellers with deep pockets. But the reality is that green-covered towers – plantscrapers – are springing up across the globe.

   • 2024 February 2, Adam Something, 0:07 from the start, in Why Green Skyscrapers are a Terrible Idea‎, YouTube:

     These idiotic "plantscrapers", as they call them, are the ultimate symbol of pretending to be environmentally friendly while doing absolutely nothing to reduce your carbon footprint.