VISUALIZATION IN RECYCLING 

 Magdy Ruslan 

 MAY 18 , 2016   DESIGN THINKING 

 Challenge 

 Some friends of mine and I have started a project about recycling . It consists in 

 getting the people to separate their plastic bottles and bring them to a specific spot where   they can obtain a compensation for them ( some sort of discounts in different restaurants   and business ) . When the bottles are delivered , they are weighted . Is intended to receive   bottles from different kind of products each day of the week ( example , Monday beverages ,   Tuesday oils , etc . ) . The project is intended to impact people from all ages but is best focus   in young people around their twenties that live near to a university . The problem with that is   that we need to discover all the reasons why people would n’t take their plastic bottles to the   recollecting spot and what we can do to change it . This is the main purpose to make this   activity and use the techniques learned in the course to evaluate the situation . Just as   general knowledge , we put the plastic recollected in a specific process to transform it into   different kinds of plastics forms that can be used to produce other type of products that are ,   then , sold to obtain founds to reinforce the ecological mindset in the community . 

 Selection 

 We selected this tool ( visualization ) because it helps to view in a graphic way the 

 situation and with that , start viewing for possible solutions or ways to act toward it . This   allows the team to analyze the situation from different perspectives and understand them ,   to select the best path of action and know what could go good and bad . It also helps that ,   even that the team decides to focus in one specific aspect at the beginning , after a time we   can go back to the diagram created and continue with other important aspects for the project . 

 Application 

 For doing the activity we first started by putting the collecting spot in the middle of a 

 big white paper . And decided , as a team , that we were going to put circles around the spot .   Each circle represented how far or how proximate a problem or situation was with respect   to the recollecting spot and the team control . For each given situation we recognized we   draw an icon or object that represented it . For that process we started from the inner circle   through the farthest one . We take turns to say something that we see can happen , if   someone have nothing to say the following person can take his turn . But this was no limiting   to keep just the original idea told by the member of the team , it was important that the rest   of the member construct over that idea by complementing it . At the end we get another round   for every circle starting again from the inner one through the farthest , this with two purposes   in mind . The first purpose of that ending round was to add more ideas if there were left and   the second one to move ideas from one circle to another if they needed to be reconfigured .   At the end of the process we have a schematic view of the recollecting process and the   situations that can arise and make it not to happen in a right way . 

 Insight 

 What we get from the activity were some important insights to consider when 

 selecting the spot and the process of collecting the bottles . I describe the insights in the   following list , starting from the ones of the inner circle to the ones of the farthest one . 

 •   Inner circle : 

 o People would not come to deliver their bottles If the weighting system is broke   o If the recompensating process does not work in a proper way   o If they do not see the results of all the plastic bottles recycled 

 •   Middle circle : 

 o If they don have the culture of recycling   o If they do not have the information that the recycling spot is available for them   o If the day for recollecting the bottles of a specific product does not fit to them 

 •   Farthest circle : 

 o If the recycling spot is far from their homes   o If they do not have the time to go to the recycling spot 

 Approach 

 In another chance of doing this process I would like to take the same activity , 

 visualization , but made in another way . What I would do different would be to create a net   to match the situations that are related or could be attended by similar actions . I would also   like to have people from the community involved in the process and not just the team   members . This would help to have different points of view and opinion of people that is not   cycled with the project . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Magdy Ruslan
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: VISUALIZATION IN RECYCLING 

 Magdy Ruslan 

 MAY 18 , 2016   DESIGN THINKING 

 Challenge 

 Some friends of mine and I have started a project about recycling . It consists in 

 getting the people to separate their plastic bottles and bring them to a specific spot where   they can obtain a compensation for them ( some sort of discounts in different restaurants   and business ) . When the bottles are delivered , they are weighted . Is intended to receive   bottles from different kind of products each day of the week ( example , Monday beverages ,   Tuesday oils , etc . ) . The project is intended to impact people from all ages but is best focus   in young people around their twenties that live near to a university . The problem with that is   that we need to discover all the reasons why people would n’t take their plastic bottles to the   recollecting spot and what we can do to change it . This is the main purpose to make this   activity and use the techniques learned in the course to evaluate the situation . Just as   general knowledge , we put the plastic recollected in a specific process to transform it into   different kinds of plastics forms that can be used to produce other type of products that are ,   then , sold to obtain founds to reinforce the ecological mindset in the community . 

 Selection 

 We selected this tool ( visualization ) because it helps to view in a graphic way the 

 situation and with that , start viewing for possible solutions or ways to act toward it . This   allows the team to analyze the situation from different perspectives and understand them ,   to select the best path of action and know what could go good and bad . It also helps that ,   even that the team decides to focus in one specific aspect at the beginning , after a time we   can go back to the diagram created and continue with other important aspects for the project . 

 Application 

 For doing the activity we first started by putting the collecting spot in the middle of a 

 big white paper . And decided , as a team , that we were going to put circles around the spot .   Each circle represented how far or how proximate a problem or situation was with respect   to the recollecting spot and the team control . For each given situation we recognized we   draw an icon or object that represented it . For that process we started from the inner circle   through the farthest one . We take turns to say something that we see can happen , if   someone have nothing to say the following person can take his turn . But this was no limiting   to keep just the original idea told by the member of the team , it was important that the rest   of the member construct over that idea by complementing it . At the end we get another round   for every circle starting again from the inner one through the farthest , this with two purposes   in mind . The first purpose of that ending round was to add more ideas if there were left and   the second one to move ideas from one circle to another if they needed to be reconfigured .   At the end of the process we have a schematic view of the recollecting process and the   situations that can arise and make it not to happen in a right way . 

 Insight 

 What we get from the activity were some important insights to consider when 

 selecting the spot and the process of collecting the bottles . I describe the insights in the   following list , starting from the ones of the inner circle to the ones of the farthest one . 

 •   Inner circle : 

 o People would not come to deliver their bottles If the weighting system is broke   o If the recompensating process does not work in a proper way   o If they do not see the results of all the plastic bottles recycled 

 •   Middle circle : 

 o If they don have the culture of recycling   o If they do not have the information that the recycling spot is available for them   o If the day for recollecting the bottles of a specific product does not fit to them 

 •   Farthest circle : 

 o If the recycling spot is far from their homes   o If they do not have the time to go to the recycling spot 

 Approach 

 In another chance of doing this process I would like to take the same activity , 

 visualization , but made in another way . What I would do different would be to create a net   to match the situations that are related or could be attended by similar actions . I would also   like to have people from the community involved in the process and not just the team   members . This would help to have different points of view and opinion of people that is not   cycled with the project .
### Output: 