These days, it has become uber essential to promote technology that allows continuous progress while respecting the integrity of natural ecosystems as well as human environment in our society. We need to constantly challenge ourselves to analyze energy and environment issues from an economics perspective! And that’s precisely what Ku San Yang has managed to do. Inspired to devise a solution to tackle the problem of Everyday Waste (particularly domestic waste), he has introduced a device, dubbed E E E which will let people rethink about waste in monetary terms. Isn’t it getting interesting? He is trying to get our attention to not only how much we waste and harm our environment but also our pockets! Through conveying the idea of ‘amount of money wasted’, the device provides a motivational platform to spur people to reduce their waste and to sort out their waste accordingly and also to encourage recycling.
His concept is that by using the device (the design solution in the presentation board) as a kind of communicative/informative technology for households to effectively understand their waste. Using the device, the households will be able to understand the value of their waste in monetary terms.
The concept behind the device works by weighing the amount of waste generated and directly translating the weight into monetary terms hence providing the notion of ‘how much money is wasted’.
Ultimately, the motive of the device is to allow users to effectively better understand their own spending patterns by getting information from the everyday waste they produced, because the waste itself was the product which users themselves spend money to buy.
To understand precisely how this gadget works, you can read here.
