ABSTRACT

As we were learning to stock our pantries and torture nature for her secrets, the industrial revolution kicked in and the machines took over. Suddenly, there are too many of us and our habits are unsustainable. The global urban development and haphazard growth have resulted in cities with an excessive amount of people, unskilled and untrained, living in chaotic sprawl. 

What-a-Waste aims to provide a sustainable and responsive approach to integrate the idea of Zero waste into solving the issue of the poor human living condition by introducing circularity in slums by recycling-constructing-earning using plastic waste which will rejuvenate the blighted areas.

OPPORTUNITY

PROBLEMS

9,200 tonnes of plastic is being produced every day in India out of which they claim to recycle only 60% of it. This questions the circularity of the material and its usage. 

As the slums are growing along with the production rate of plastic, can recycling plastic turn these blighted areas into mines, creating employment opportunities, sanitary and sheltered living areas and a self-sufficient & sustainable community?

SCHEME

SOLUTION

Circularity Diagram

Process

STATE OF THE ART

One of the main reasons for the failure to recycle plastic is the segregation process.

How can a system be designed to engage the unskilled and unemployed in an easy, systematic way of plastic recycling?

VALIDATION

VALIDATION PLAN

TARGET CUSTOMERS

Total Available Market

Serviceable Available Market

Serviceable Obtainable Market

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

TEAM

FUNDING

WHAT-A-WASTE is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the second year of the Master in Advanced Architecture in the seminar Business Innovation in 2021/22 by Student: Prarthana Sudhindra and Faculty: Davide Rovera