This PSS project focuses on the issues of household batteries being disposed incorrectly and becoming a hazardous addition to landfill causing all sorts of health, social and environmental issues. Its a simple system where participants of the service would have a home kit which includes a member credit point card and a used battery collection container with a battery life checker. The battery life checker ensures all batteries are not wasted and used to its maximum benefit, this is to deal with uncertainty to whether a battery is fully used or can be benefited elsewhere of lower power requirements, hence emphasising the idea and behaviour of no wastage.
The system runs on rewarding incentives and provides a sense of value at the same time picking up good and responsible disposal behaviours. Each time batteries are reclaimed they are counted or weighed (standard grams of conventional batteries approximation) they would get a preset credit accumulation and stored into the card. This would then enable participants to purchase new batteries within stores providing the service. This not only encourages people to dispose responsibly and safety, its also a valuable system where people feel a beneficial gain, the home kit being at home also acts as a constant reminder of the availability of such benefit.Details on the product and how the system works are detailed in the posters.
I really like the battery clock style as it can be used as a piece of useful product on our bedside table. Also, it would definitely encourage me to preform this disposal action as I would get benefits out of it. Also, by doing this, it makes me feel I am helping the environment.
ReplyDeleteI really like the whole project how from having the product at home you can get it stored and quite like the card system, the card looks really nice. I know that there is a lot of batteries being thrown away, I think this will be a really good way to attract people to recycle batteries. Nice work ~!
ReplyDeleteI quite like your pss design, both the service and the product. Having such a produt at home collecting the used batteries can effeciently reduce the chance throwing the batteries away with the general wastes. The service also encourages people to recycle their used batteries instead of throwing them anywhere. this really helps to protect the environment.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good idea as I often have a large number of used batteries sitting at home and I don't know how much energy is left in the battery, so I just throw all of them into bin which is not really good for the environment. Also, I like the idea you have the rewarding incentives, so people like me will be happy to go the recycle center to recycle the battery.
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