Waste·Way - Industrial Design Thesis Project

Wherever people go in this day and age garbage will surely follow, it's true that some of this waste is able to be recycled and reused, but a lot of it ends up in a landfill. A large contributor to this problem is the waste management systems in public places such as campuses and shopping centres. it is in these facilities that the problem arises, waste isn't being properly sorted, both by the user and by the facility. After copious amounts of research, benchmarking and user observations several major problems within this system became visible, allowing for the ideation of solutions that could potentially simplify improve potentially overcome these problems. With a focus on making the act of sorting and recycling waste into an immersive user experience, the goal is to improve the wayfinding, form factor, and interaction points of a standard waste collection receptacle. The overall goal is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in a landfill through the redesign of the entire indoor public space waste management system. A focus on an alternative to the standard waste management bin receptacles will be explored primarily. As well as a secondary focus on streamlining and re-evaluating the network as a whole, to reduce strenuous labour and unneeded complicating steps in the process.