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This project aims to understand the after effects of modern life by looking at consumer waste. By making the waste information visible and transparent, will that transform consumer behavior to a sustainable one?

Approach: conducted secondary research and looked for pre-cursors in the area of waste management. Used frameworks to identify opportunity space and generate concepts for platform development.

Project Team: Tyler Duston, Jose Mello, Omihito Matsushita, Yu Yin, Chia-ling Yu
Faculty Advisor: Larry Keeley
Key Role: research, concept design, platform prototyping, presentation.

- Access point to re.google
- General environmental news
- Reward program teasers
- Related links
- DIY tab with instructions on certain topics (ie. composting)
- IDEAS forum where users post news and generate discussions

- Home page for specific user
- History of user’s input
- Environmental effect of user’s participation
- Fun avatar game grow with user input. Invite friend’s avatar to join playground
- Newsfeed & marketplace recommendations based on user's input behavior

- User enters recycling and waste info with picture or manual upload
- Information on local recycling options & suggestions
- Re-use offers, claims and sale items
- History of uploads

- News of community based events & programs
- Statistics on community participation
- Environmental effect of community’s participation
- Options to create competition locally or nationally