Iplanet is a solution to the management of organic wastes at home. It is a website in which you will find information about how to make your own products with elements that you can find in your home to make use of the organic waste.The result of the design process is a prototype of the web page that is located in this link:
The web page is composed for 5 parts:
Home: where you see a video (see at the right side) that has the function of showing in a friendly way what the problem of the organic waste is.
Instruction Manuals: This section allows you to search in a database of manuals arranged according to the stages of the composting process.
Wiki: Information about the process of composting.
About: What is the project and a presentation of the stages of design.
Shop: You can buy some of the existing instructives already built.
Some of the most relevant data that impulsed us to develop this project was:- 0.48Kg of waste produced by person daily.
- Between 55% -70% of the volume of the entire waste is organic.
- In our city (Medellín-Colombia) it represents 236-295 Ton/monthly in CO2 equivalent due to travel to the landfill
As result of our initial investigation, we found out that the problem of the organic waste management had two principal causes:
- Misinformation.
-Deficient managment.
The metodology used in the project consisted of 3 steps:
Research: User profile and complementary data.
Create: Product design.
Deliver: Make it public.
Through the design process we considered many different ideas and evaluated them in terms of funcionality, feasibility, sustainability and innovation. Most of the product ideas failed because they involved more production processes and more waste of raw materials, and they don't help to diminish the misinformation problem, about how the organic waste impacts the planet and that we don´t have unlimited resources.
The webpage Iplanet tries to give information about how people can reuse their waste, in a way that we can close the cycle of the organic waste and extend the lifespan of other products such as Coke bottles and plastic bags.
The webpage Iplanet tries to give information about how people can reuse their waste, in a way that we can close the cycle of the organic waste and extend the lifespan of other products such as Coke bottles and plastic bags.
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TEAM:
Juan Carlos Arbeláez
Manuela Calle
Juan Carlos Arbeláez
Manuela Calle
