Ideas

So our group came up with five ideas which we chose from our brainstorm ideas. Apart from it, we are assigned to see each pros and cons so at the end, we can figure out which ones are the best one and or maybe combine each other to create one final idea.

Brainstorming

Class were asked to do a brainstorming and have to came up with 101 ideas towards the group topic. On mahjong paper, my group managed to not only come up with 101 ideas but in total of 110 (well, mainly because we miscalculated and end up did 110). Anyways, it's kinda messy but it supposed to be that way right.

Case study

So in class, the lecturer asked if we understand the research methodology, such as case study, interview, observation, survey, etc. My group got case study and the teacher asked questions about it.

 This is my group's answers. After all questions answered, we were asked to paste it on to the wall. All the case studies ones become one group after that we have to discuss which we need to add.

Other's group

Other's group

Little observation

Even though my group do not use observation as the research methodology, I did it anyway because i wanted to know how frequent does people recycle in daily basis. Regarding the fact that our group chose the housewives as the persona, in the past week, as I walk through the apartments, I realised one thing. People do not recycle enough, sounds cliché since this is our topic but it is what it is. The fact that people do not recycle enough these days does not really surprised me since people todays seem to have thousand of excuses and recycle seems to not bother them.

Although recycle bins were placed in every corner of apartment or HDB, people just keep throwing away trash without sorting it out. There are thousands of reason behind it but i found that 80% people do not know which are the recyclabe items.

Survey

So in order to complete the Report, one of the research method that we chose is Survey. We chose to execute it online where wider range of people can access it. (www.surveymonkey.com/s/9SN5LL2) So far, as i wrote this blog, there are 110 respondences.

Responses Report on Survey Monkey

100 out of 110 responses, 75% admitted they have ever recycled. When asked about their obstacle on doing recycle, the mainly answers is because they do not know much about recycle, 15% people responded that they think it is waste of time, 6% thought that it is not important and 9% chose others as their respond. 49% people admitted that they only recycle when they found the recycle bin on the street and only 34% people do it because they care, others even said that they had never done recycle. 97% people believed that it is important to start recycle.

Case Study - National Recycle Week

Although Australia regarded as having relatively established recycling services, it is also the second highest per capita producers of waste in the world. It produces over 18 million tons of waste in a year. As the news released by Planet Ark Environmental Foundation, people in Australia also started to take part in this problem.

Once a year, Planet Ark Environmental Foundation holds National Recycling Week where in one-week people in Australia recycle their waste. It is also especially applied at school and workplaces. It aims to engage students in learning about the environmental benefits of recycling, to increase the number of businesses/workplaces involved in recycling, and also promoting the re-use and recycling initiatives in the community. Overall, it aims to bring national focus in environmental benefits of recycling, including greater tonnage and less contamination, of kerbside, industrial and community recycling programs. Popular with media, Planet Ark Environmental use media to do the campaign. They embrace every sponsorship to make this happened every year and use celebrities such as Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Newton-John, Steve Irwin, Nicole Kidman, etcetera to front its campaign.

The result of this act brings Australia to a better environmental. Recycle in this country has rapidly increased and become one of countries which succeed in recycle.

BY Felicia Wuisan as seen on Design Process Report.