Waste Collaborative is a passion project that explores social and technical interventions to address the problem of information silos in the waste management sector in India.
In the first wave of the pandemic in February 2020, we wanted to understand, validate and design solutions for the waste generation patterns of the individual in Lockdown 1.0 of India. As part of this exploration, our inaugural social initiative - #TrashTalksChallenge - was aimed to increase end-consumers' awareness on their waste habits and benchmark their knowledge on the 3Rs. We formed multiple task-forces where individuals would track their waste habits for a week during and after the lockdown 1.0, understand and analyse their consumption and waste generation patterns. This was assessed against their knowledge of the 3Rs and managing waste more effectively as an end-user.
Based on these insights, we ideated several digital and physical interventions to address how the end-users can 1. educate themselves on waste consumption and management, 2. address and tackle the problem as an end-user making informed decisions, 3. make value of the waste they generate through external partnerships.
Additionally, as an exciting part of this passion project, we collaborated with School of Active Citizenship to work with a cohort of high-school students on research projects understanding and addressing waste management in India.
Project Date: March – December 2020, September 2021 – Current
Website: https://www.wastecollaborative.com/