Recycling Education Kit

  • Jisu BAE

In the UK, we send over 15 million tonnes of rubbish from our homes to the landfill every year, and 23.6 million tonnes 10.3 million tonnes 40% of UK emissions come from households. 47% of people express confusion as to what type of waste they can put in which bin, according to BBC data. With this understanding in mind, this project is aimed to educate children on the importance of recycling, understanding that if children learn to recycle from an early age, they will carry that good habit with them for life. Recycling Education kit comprises of a booklet, postcard, and colour label stickers. With the booklet, children can learn and understand why it is important to recycle. The young participants can do an activity with colour label stickers within their home and their own recycling bins, engaging them with an important domestic and environmentally important activity.

Development diagram of packaging
5 colour lable stickers are reffered to Europe recycling colour system and used by paper cutting.
Recycling application helps children to recycle in real lives. They can take a photo of a real object, then the app recognizes what object and matches which colour bin has to be used.
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