Reduce Waste
A One Day Design Challenge.
Waste Management
A One Day Design Challenge.
Chalkpiece along with School4Change school conducted a one day design challenge to
reduce the amount of waste produced to 2kg from 6kg in the region of Thiruvotriyur
ChalkPiece
We are a group of Designers , incorporating and addressing the pressing need for experience design to solve Social problems. We aim at building a design-driven ecosystem where design augments emerging technology and bring in the next level of disruption for the innovative product.
School4Change
School4Change is a NGO who have been running free night school for Government school students for the past 14 years in Thiruvotriyur. They work with a proper structured syllabus. Nearly 2500 students passed out from their night school.
Why Reduce Waste?
Improper methods of waste disposal leads to high environmental risks which have serious effects on our future.
Waste disposal involves various processes, including collection, transportation, dumping, recycling, and treatment of different kinds of wastes. The hazards of waste disposal and Awareness about the waste management has to be raised in every household and to every young generations
Waste disposal involves various processes, including collection, transportation, dumping, recycling, and treatment of different kinds of wastes. The hazards of waste disposal and Awareness about the waste management has to be raised in every household and to every young generations
Waste Segregation
Design Thinking approach
Waste Awareness
Door Campaign
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Demonstrating the model
Our Solution
Chalkpiece along with Design4School organized an event for School children to inculcate the ideas of waste management. The students were divided into teams, each team was given a problem statement and were asked to come up with a solution to reduce waste disposal.
50
Students
Students
5
Teams
Teams
5
Designers
Designers
TEAM 1:
House Hold Waste
The Team 1 emphasized about house hold wastes
and how it can be reduced, reused ad recycled. The
group of students created a model to collect wastes
separately and took to the households to address
their difficulties and collect feedback about the
ideated model. The model was highly welcomed by
the households and awareness was created among
everyone including the kids on the importance to
reduce waste generation and how to safely dispose
them and recycle the things that could be without
wasting them.
TEAM 2
Class Room Waste
Wastes collected at school level can be made easier
by implementing the process first in each
classroom. The Students of team 2 came up with a
creative idea to collect biodegradable and nonbiodegradable wastes separately. They created 2
prototype baskets with signs pasted over them to
identify the type of waste and suggestions pasted
above to reduce the production of wastes. Prior to
this, a survey was conducted by the students in
other classrooms and their friends and found that
many of them did not know about the difference
between biodegradable and non-biodegradable
wastes. The prototype was then used to make them
aware of the difference and as a result the kids in
the neighborhood pledged to reduce the wastes and
that they would separate them before throwing to
ebale the 3R process.
TEAM 3:
School Waste
Students used the data collected from the school
watchman and sanitarian and used it to come up
with a prototype to segregate and reduce the
amount of waste collected overtime. They came up
with a simple, yet unique design with four
compartments to collect chemical, food,
biodegradable and non-Biodegradable wastes
separately. The students inquired about the pricing
to recycle per kg of non-biodegradable wastes
from a nearby recycling shop. And came up with a
neat pricing plan in order for the school to retrieve
some They suggested an idea to use the
biodegradable and food wastes to create manures.
The overall idea was to implement Recycling and to
utilize degradable wastes without any leftovers.
TEAM 4
Shop Waste
In order to control the usage of plastics in large
shops and shopping marts, the students of Team 4
came up with an idea to distribute paid recyclable
bags and bottles. The idea was to distribute
biodegradable bags and bottles to carry groceries,
things and buy liquids like oil using a token
system. The Machine specifically installed for this
purpose can be used to get the bags and bottles by
inserting a token which can be purchased from the
store owner. This process may enable people to
reduce the usage of plastic bags and plastic bottles
when they shop. Also, liquids like oil can be
purchased in the glass bottles and this in turn can
reduce the usage of plastic packets used to
distribute oil.
TEAM 5:
Road Side Garbage
All the wastes are collected and disposed by the
corporation from households in a locality. Team 4
suggested an innovative way to overcome the
difficulties of foul smell and waste disposal by
creating a Garbage collector. They suggested
separate vehicles to collect the two types of waste
and rather than usual way wherein the vehicle is
open this model would have a side slit to dispose
waste and the vehicle would be covered to mask
the foul smell. From the data collected in their
locality it was visible that people there already
separate the wastes. But the only problem was the
was smell and difficulties they face to understand
the type of waste. The students even went beyond
and came up with an idea to create an App to track
the vehicle and how manufacturers can print the
whether the packaging and their product is
biodegradable or not
Outcome
The one day workshop had a great impact on the
people of Thiruvotriyur. As a team overall we were
able to reduce around 3 kg of waste per family and
a total of around 40 kg of waste generated from
families within 1km of the locality