Final Idea

As for the final idea, we combined the idea of door-to-door collection, trash collection day, and rewards. The purpose of this idea is to encourage people to recycle more because who does not like to get rewards? People could sign up a 3R account to register their names and addresses. After that, like other Point Cards, it will be sent to your address or you can pick it up in nearest Community Centre. On certain days selected, trash would be collected by the trash collector but the main part is people have to sort out the trash based on materials that will be collected that day. For an instance, on Wednesday, it will be Plastics and Electronics junks so people have to sort it out into the garbage bag and leave it on the door. After that, the trash collector would come and pick it up. They will be the one who counts the points rewarded. They will also be the one who automatically update the points added. Every points added can be accumulated up to a year, they can also redeemed it to get discounts at Fair Price and OG.

In my opinion, this is a good idea that can be applied in Singapore. People would get interested to it and started to do it. From daily actions can be a habit and recycling habit is definitely a good start to save our planet.

The design.

Jambangan

Jambangan is a recycling centre which can be found in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. This place provides recycling training, recyclable materials, and also accepts orders on recyclable handcrafts.
The handicraftsmen are usually housewives, who got nothing to do in the day, so they decided to make things out of recyclable waste and turn it into a new products which can turn into money.

 Artificial Flowers made of plastic straws (Rp. 35,000 or S$3)

Flowers colour choice.

Corsage (Rp. 5,000 or 50 cents each)

 Wallet (Rp. 10,000 or S$1)

Pencil Case (Rp. 25,000 or S$2)

 Notebooks (Small Rp. 25,000 or S$2 and Big Rp. 40,000 or S$4)

 Tote Bag (Rp. 25,000 or S$2)

Sling Bag (Rp. 75,000 or S$7)

These above are just some of their works that they sell. It is actually fine made. I think it is one of the best alternatives to encourage people to recycle. It is good for unemployed people to start the business because the materials are not expensive (wasted materials that can be recycled)

<Source: Jambangan Daur Ulang www.daurulangjambangan.blogspot.com>

Main ideas sketch

I was asked to sketch out the five main ideas. So these are the sketches:

Pay the fine

Green bin

Voucher rebate

Trash collecting day

Door-to-door collection

Housewives as Persona

As the teacher asked us to use one or more persona(s) in the project, my group chose to use housewives. Many may asked why. Well, housewives are basically the one that take care of the house regularly. They are the one who are responsible of it. Meaning that they are the one who take care of the household waste too. In that case, they are also the one who knows if the trash are being recycled or not. In this project, we decided to interview them. We take three housewives as our subject. The HDB living housewife, a housewife who lives in private property and one who works in a day and also have to be a housewife. With this research method, we want to find out any obstacle for them on recycling the waste. What are needed to be done and how to solve it. I think, personally, housewives are the best persona to represent this topic.

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.

Recycling Materials

There is a lot of materials in this world that is able to recycle but most of the people do not know about that. Thus whenever people saw a recycle bin and their holding a recyclable rubbish they just throw it to the recycle bin without knowing that some of the parts are not recyclable. Actually there is a lot of materials that can be recycled. For example the common things that is recyclable is glass drinking bottles. The glass are able to recycle but the lids must recycle separately. When recycling the glass drinking bottles do not forget to leave the lids off. Other materials such as milk cartons or any other cartons are able to recycle as well.  Paper from magazines, newspapers, waste office paper and contact books also recyclable as well as aluminum drink can, steel food cans, paint tins, aerosol containers, coffee tins, bottle tops and jar lids. Plastics or any kind of things with recyclable symbols on them are also able to recycle.

(Taken from Group Report)

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TOMRA

In late 2010, Eco Plastics pointed TOMRA with one of the most demanding sorting challenges it had ever encountered. Eco Plastics wanted to provide consistent clean PET Flakes to the next level, which has never been achieved before. Even to trained eyes, it is hardly possible to differentiate PVC and PET flakes. It aims to develop a world-class solution allowing the sorting of PET flake by material and color simultaneously, providing a milestone in the quality and purity of the PET output and to create a 'super yield' - minimizing over sorting while maintaining output purity. 

After the problem approached, TOMRA initiated a project and worked closely with Eco Plastics,  they have to redesigned their software and hardware in order to create a technology that capable to do that almost impossible sorting of PET Flakes. The technology (The TITECH Autosort) systems have been incorporated with Hemswell Plant, after the materials have been identified, shredded and then washed. This high end technology is capable of sorting flakes down to 2 mm while still maintaining the purity while still producing less waste. 

The outcome of the project has been one of the proudest technology they achieved. An eco-friendly technology that made the highest quality material available in the market todays. 

<By Felicia Wuisan as seen on report>

What is Recycle?

Recycling is a process to change waste materials into new products in order to prevent waste of potentially used materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse bass emissions as compared to plastic production. Most of the time, it takes less energy to recycle trash than to throw it away yet people do not recycle, it destructs the world gradually; the waste is getting bigger and bigger, soon we do not have much landfills to hold the waste, illness started to spread because of the dirtiness, water pollution and air pollution started to become more and more, worsening the greenhouse issue. People cannot neglect the fact that recycling is serious. Only few people would bother to look at this issue. Others seem to care less for so many reasons. Even though, the government gives solutions to it, not all do what the government told to.


<Taken from Report>

Bottle Cap Art

Bottled drinks is one of the most bought item daily. So instead of throwing the bottle cap away, why don't you try to make an art out of it? Here are some inspiration! Turns out they make beautiful art with it.

all pictures are taken from Pinterest.

World's Highest per Capita Solid Waste Producer

Believe it or not Canada is the World's highest per capita solid waste producer. Between 1990 to 2005, it has increased by 24%. By 2000, they produced more than the Americans (which was before the highest waste producer). By 2006, per person produced in estimate 1000kg a year. In 2010, Canada even surpassed the capacity of its landfill, forcing them to export its waste out of Canada.

Canada waste management took action to it and focus on 3R: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. On this situation, it is best to reduce the waste but the hardest one although recycle would be least effective but it got more attention towards people.

<Source: http://wasteflow.ca/wasteflow.ca/Canadas_Waste_Flow_Overview.html>

Research Methodology Plan

My group decided to use three Research Methodologies for this project

- Case Studies (Done by every person in the group)

- Interview (Interviewing housewives because they are the personas that we chose, Done by Amber)

- Survey (Done by Felicia Wuisan using survey monkey)

Emphatizing on being a foreigner.

Nowadays, recycle has been an important issue yet few people realized it. Take my country as an example, people do not really do recycle in fact they will just throw trash wherever they like. House waste, trash, industrial waste are not organized at all. Law do not work as they supposed to. All this things cause the flood in the raining season and when i say flood, it is really really flooding until the point where it cause illness and in rundown places they even have to use floating boat because of the depth.

When i moved to Singapore, it is really different compared to my country. The law is way more straight compared to my country's therefore i do not see trash thrown on street or places, everything is more organized and cleaner. The thing is since it is different compared to my country, it is really hard for me to understand about the recycling thing. I am not used to the idea of it. I do not really understand which are the things that could be recycled and which ones could not. Like the plastics, i just knew that not all the plastics can be recycled. It takes hundred years for some plastic to breaks down. In my apartment, i am only given one bin where i throw all the trash and every twice a week, a house helper took and throw it away for me. Thus, i do not really take my time to recycle things. As far as i know, i only recycle when there was an education seminar in school where you had to bring waste that can be recycled and recycle it in school or maybe in art class, you made an art out of thrown stuff.

All in all, eventhough now my environment is cleaner and more organised, i still found it hard because of the lack of knowledge about it.

Benefit of Recycling

There are benefits found in recycling, such as:
- Saves energy, Making new production needs more energy than reusing it.
- Helps keep the environment for the future
- Reduces greenhouse effect that cause the global warming
- Prevents air pollution
- Reduces the need of new raw materials
- Conserves natural resources

Why People Don't Recycle

These days people don't recycle much, in fact they rarely recycle, only few people who are committed to environmental scene who recycle. The biggest question to this statement is 'Why?'. There are millions answer to this question, starting on how people nowadays are busy, or maybe lazier, or in other case they don't understand about what or how to recycle. And i think the biggest problem with people nowadays when they are asked why is they always said, "I don't need to, others will". This is the biggest problem because when most of people say this then who is going to do it? Moreover, some people do not know much about recycle or what things to recycle or how to recycle. People aren't given enough information on what is recycle. Only few like students or on work scheme who are given like seminar about recycle and the important thing about it.

All in all, much people do not recycle because they don't understand and always avoiding because of many reasons.