Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

"Improve municipal waste management through citizen action"

Groupe 88

Project 1: GIVEO

Context

Our first project revolves particularly around the problems of recycling food waste. With the rise of environmental movements, some companies have become aware of the importance of this struggle. Initiatives such as TooGoodToGo (an application that allows businesses to sell food that has reached its expiry date to consumers at low prices) have emerged. So it's on this basis that we imagined our project. Each person living independently has already had to throw away at least once food that was past its expiry date and which they knew they would not use. Our initiative is even more important as poverty is a major problem in our economy, in particular with the confinement linked to the health crisis of the Covid19, we have been able to see lines of people, and students in particular, in need in front of the "resto du coeur" association. To fight against this we have proposed an application that allows us to directly post an announcement highlighting the food we are not going to use so that it can be recovered by local associations.

Target

Our product interacts with a variety of users.

  • First, citizens will use our application to inform receivers that they are willing to give food. Then charities will use our product to contact the giver and set up an appointment date, location etc...
  • Furthermore city council will be able to monitor this exchange, serving as an intermediary, so they can use allocate ressources in a better way. However our real target, meaning the one who will pay us a fee is the city council.

    • Service offered

    Our service is part of the solidarity economy because we allow citizen and people in need to interact via technology. We fund ourselves by charging a fee to local city council so that the service is free for other users. Through our application, citizen are able to inform charities and associations that they are giving out food. Then the intermediary (the city council) can set up parameter to better allocate ressources. Finally charities receive the information and can cintact the giver to set up a date and a location to retrieve the goods.

    Identity

    Those pictures illustrate our project

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    Project 2 : COMPOST MALIN

    Context

    By 2025, by law, all individuals will be required to have a solution to treat their bio-waste. Currently only structures producing more than 10 tons per year are subject to this obligation. This constraint is unfortunately not respected. Bio-waste can be revalorized in several forms, by metanization or compost for example. Compost is a relatively simple process, but it takes a certain amount of time. Then the fact of having and storing decomposing plants at home often discourages users. Today, some companies like UpCycle have developed composters that do not emit odors and that transform bio-waste into fertilizer much faster than before. The material produced by these machines can be assimilated to fertilizer, and is therefore easily recycled. You just have to "feed" these machines with enough material to make it interesting. We must therefore push the citizens to fill these machines.

    Target

    The owner will be the municipalities but our project mainly targets households, homes and organisations that produce organic waste. Nowadays, many materials are compostable and this process can be done by anyone. We wish to promote composting for families, households whether they are in houses or flats, students, but also restaurants, municipal and collective canteens. In short, we want to target all actors who can produce organic waste (vegetable and fruit peelings, tea leaves, wood chips...), whether on a large or small scale.

    Service offered

    We would like to facilitate the installation of the above mentioned machines by creating a system of incentives for people - upstream of the constraint legal - to take their bio-waste there. We would like to create a terminal/balance, allowing users to register, weigh their biowaste and insert it into the machine. In return, and depending on the amount deposited, the user would receive a reward. This reward would be a discount on municipal services (transport, parking, water or electricity bills, etc.).

    Identity

    These images give an idea of the universe around our service:

    Benchmark

    References

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