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>