What it does
It is solving the problem if cigarette but littering by following the existing habits of the people
Your inspiration
I and my friends were told to go and visit a place in Gandhinagar, Gujarat India, as we know that Gujarat as a place is a dry state and the only thing people do is smoke and hence there is cigarette bud every were on the streets, and hence we thought of a solution for that to improve and make our city clean
How it works
So the basic idea of this bin is to collect all the cigarette bud, littering in the public spaces, just like open area, restaurants, where smoking is allowed or any public space. This was developed keeping in mind that cigarette, but littering has become a major issue as it is one of the most delivered objects on earth . The basic mechanism of it is very simple is just a pull and push mechanism that is bin used to make it cost affective to use in the public areas and it is very easy to handle. Also, it can blend into the psychology of people who smoke and throw cigarettes just like that on the roads as it is placed a bit near to their feet and that is where they really throw their cigarettes and blow out the cigarette and hence that way people will not feel out of the way lazy to throw out the cigarette in a dust bin
Design process
Are design process was to visit the place first, and then look for what all people are facing problems and that’s where we discovered that people had a behaviour of throwing it or flicking their cigarettes to blow it out, and it was not at all safe for them to put it in a dustbin as it can start a wildfire and they were totally aware about that so hence we thought why don’t we take as the main action and build something upon that, and hence we thought of how we can separate cigarette buds and their Ash itself so that there is no problem to send it further to recycle, hence we came up with cigarette but disposal bin
How it is different
it is different as all the dustbins or ashtrays which are made. It has not inculcated the actions that the people follow in the public spaces and then it leads to litter which we have thought about and made our main action point and made it more user friendly
Future plans
Our future plan is to build something more innovative in this segment itself, which is waste management, how we can manage our waste in terms of differentiating between recycling and a total system of making recycling user-friendly
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