Design Thinking - Attached Waste Recycling area

Around 3 to 4 decades back, washing area, bathroom etc. which were outside our living space. The principle reason for this was to keep the filthy and dirty activities outside our living area. Cut to, when we look at our homes today, we may have not noticed, but all these activities have come inside the living area, with attached bathroom, washing machine etc. And it is worth noting that these are more cleaner than when they were outside. If we just sit back and ponder over the change that has taken place...we would really wonder how dramatic the change is.

Today solid waste is at the same juncture, we are accustomed to dispose waste outside our homes and are accustomed to mix our waste (green, plastic, paper). But I intend to argue that, as we have developed a concept of attached bathroom (not one but many), we can have an attached Waste Recycling Area, which would deal with waste segregation, organic waste recycling etc. These waste recycling area would have following:
1. Space for waste segregation (with specially designed bins which occupy minimum space).
2. Tools for organic waste recycling.

These recycling area can be a common facility for a community, office or at individual household level. Presently there are no technological hurdles in implementing the above concept, thus with enough drive, every community can be equipped with such attached recycling area.

Green Waste + Plastic = Economic and Envionmental Loss

Dear Friends,

Our use of plastic bag has increased greatly. Earlier we used to go with our own cloth bag for vegetable shopping, but today we are habituated to get a plastic bag from the vegetable vendor, and with more variety of vegetable - higher the numbers of bag. Similarly we get bags from grocery stores and other places - without our demanding for it - this plastic bag has become our part of life.

This plastic bag build up in our house has also - found new routes to its discard - There has been a growing practice of filling our daily garbage in these bags and dumping them. Some time the waste is loosely filled and some time waste is tightly bound.

Have we ever wondered that our practice of green waste disposal in plastic bag is posing the biggest environmental threat. Generally the green waste can be converted into manure and plastic can be recycled. But when our green waste is filled inside these bags, it neither leaves green waste useful nor plastic recyclable. As can be seen from the picture, even animals find it difficult to eat the green waste.

So, next time when we use plastic bag.. let us think our its ultimate fate and make sure it is eco-friendly.

Why my city is not Clean?

Dear Reader,

Since starting this project, lot of people come up to us and ask one thing and it has been repeating so badly that I thought lets get the secret out once and for all. In fact it is not secret it is Pandora's box. People come up to us and ask that I get my waste pick up very day, then way should I bother to dispose my waste more "Greenly".
I would try so answer these question in various part:

1. The first part is the price, if you are one of the guys who has same question, then try to workout how much you pay to get rid of your waste - Please try.....................OK, I give up...you cannot..so I would give u reference UK : Rs. 2000/month, US: $ 15/month. Details may vary from county to state. Now compare your cost with theirs. This is the fundamental reason why their cities seem clean than ours.

So if one is not ready to pay the price to green disposal, then one should don't complain about the dirty street and stinking dumpster. And by the way our research shows us that if we are aware enough that we can earn from your waste, Are You? ..take the "one day challenge"

A one day Challange

Stop a minute and look around you....in your room, outside the window near the municipal dumpster, on the pathway....waste is everywhere...,
why not from tomorrow consider this waste as a resource....why not for one day change the perspective and remind yourself again and again...that waste is resource....

• Why not for one day...only buy those things which do not create waste, which can be recycled.
  
• Why not for one day...do not accept the plastic bag from the vegetable vendor,
• Why not for one day.

Are you ready for this One Day Challenge?