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Less - make recycling a social and collective effort.
A mobile app that converts our recycling actions into points that are ranked against friends and communities on a social platform.
UPDATED 20 June: How do I recycle this? An app to arm people with recycling know- how (and a why and a where)
The app arms users with knowledge about how they can recycle household items.
R-Blocks, Updated November 22
R-Blocks is a customizable and user-friendly recycling bin concept that helps people establish better recycling habits at home by simply changing the perception of trash.
Bottles for Smiles. One for One
Bottles for Smiles is a one-for-one program that works to transfer the positive impacts of consumer recycling to benefit the needs of low-income families. It is widely understood that recycling has a positive long term impact on the environment by re
krank|re|Cycle - funny tools to feed 3d printers
A set of simple and manual machines, inspired by the fitness tools's world, allow to reduce and recycle plastic and aluminium at home.
UPDATE 3, on 20th June. Mr. Recycle - A service design model for recycling
The idea focuses on leveraging the existing retail supply chain and life cycle based information to make the recycling of packaging in a more efficient and engaging way. Currently, the consumers do not know how is their recycling impacting the envir
Updated: From This to This: An App. That Reveals Possibilities ( Prototype Added)
One idea that might make recycling at home easier to envision creative ways of turning waste into something useful, is to create an app. that shows what a product could be if it were recycled rather than thrown away. "From This to This" is a simple
The #Reimagine bag
FINAL UPDATE: It began with an idea of presenting recyclables with an aesthetic touch. A simple and cheap way of doing so is by redesigning the plastic bag. While most recycling bags take the form of a flimsy trashbag, I took inspiration from the sta
Final Update: Waste Free Wednesday - let's start a social movement to cut down waste 1 day a week
Get people to pledge to stop consuming products that will end up in landfill on Wednesdays. UPDATES: I've uploaded new content to the Facebook page to try and build this idea in the real world. https://www.facebook.com/WasteFreeWednesday
Scrapp – A Ratings & Rewards Ecosystem
Scrapp is a ratings and rewards ecosystem that encourages more people to recycle at home. Through scrappstore.com it presents a range of recycle efficient bins and also links-in with businesses to adapt the retail environment of bins to reflect this.
Final Update: How to Form a New, Good Habit & Make it Stick. Product formats: 1) Interactive website prototype (V1 info architecture, V3 of the design), 2) Large printed wall magnet/sticker for schools, 3) And, eventually this can take on app format
What are habits? Habits are activities you perform consistently and typically on schedule. Habits don’t deplete the brain’s energy, therefore enabling the brain to focus its reserves on reviewing/solving other, more complicated aspects you confront d
Recyculator. Because recycling is a numbers game. Updated June 18th 2014 (new images)
Sometimes recycling is just not so convenient. It is these times that you ask yourself questions like: “would this one bottle of coke really make a difference? How much difference would one bottle make?” The common answer is “every bottle counts” but
Recy'Cream Trucks [Updated June 18]
There is nothing like the distant strains of the ice cream truck melody to mobilize and excite children (and sometimes adults). This concept uses a fun and low-cost incentive device to encourage at home recycling by the whole family: yummy treats dis
CycleUp - Improve recycling across your community. 3RD UPDATE: Working prototype with neighbors 2ND UPDATE: Household Pledges. 1ST UPDATE: Smart wi-fi scale to track your recycling rates
CycleUp is a web app for improving recycling habits among entire communities. YOUR HOUSEHOLD - The app experience begins by showing your recycling rate and rank, using gamification, incentives, pledges and social status to encourage your household
The E-waste race! A race between schools to collect as much e-waste as possible.
The e-waste race is a competition between schools to collect as much e-waste as possible. The project increases awareness through children and works on the collection of e-waste to be recycled. Through smart use of an interactive website, www.ewa
[Video Uploaded!!] Trash Talks: Community Recycling Program that Visualizes & Rewards Recycling Efforts
Recycling may start at a home, but it doesn't end there. The "Trash Talks" ecosystem considers the entire journey of recycling, from sorting recyclables at home, collection of recyclables in the community area, learning how to recycle from a "recycli
Kick Cycle: a recycler’s green game box filled with fun for the entire family to help kick start their recycling habits.
The Kick Cycle green game box has activities that support families in local communities to start making changes to their recycling routine at home. The game includes instructions, 'how-to recycle' bin stickers, a game board, dice, progress tracker
Coke Bring Bag: Reimagining the Home Recycle Bin
Made from recycled PET coke bottles, the Coke Bring Bag helps contain and transport recyclables while being itself recyclable. Pick-ups and drop-offs are easy: Coke Bring Bags can be picked up from any local Coca-Cola Bring Station or most super mar
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Buy something that you really needed, for example the cloth that everyone need to wear everyday, think weather some clothes in your wardrobe, maybe some clothes you only wear for one day or one time. So we could stop buying something that we not re
Could a simple sticker help us recycle more? - Call for designs!
A simple sticker that serves as a just-in-time reminder to help separate recycle from trash.
Recycling Champ, Updated 4, June 1st
The idea is to help people to develop a habit of recycling by gamifying the process of creating habits: Trigger - Behaviour (make it as easy as possible to have early success) - Reward . The basic gaming concept is that people could purchase or downl
