Trashed - Smart Trashcan Design Challenge

The Hazard of Unending Garbage

Cities are grounds for most of our stubborn, wasteful practices. The daily commute in automobiles, power consumption by our appliances, buildings, shopping trends, our entire lifestyle is the never-ending source of wastes that end up spending many centuries in landfills. 

Waste generation is a major concern today, contributing to pollution and climate change. About 3.4 billion tons of wastes are expected to be generated globally, by the year 2050. Even though it is a problem that has to be tackled by capitalism on a larger scale, reduction of waste can be done with individual efforts as well.   Urbanization has made cities the epicenter for waste generation, causing deterioration of hygiene and sanity. Landfills are more than just eyesores, they contain toxins, polluting air, land, and groundwater. While the methods to manage this amount of waste are evolving, they are not efficient enough to handle the inflow. 

Can we avoid or reduce the amount of trash that will end up in landfills?

Brief: - The challenge of the competition is to design a public trash can/bin of dimension 2m x 2m for the 21st century while encouraging people to use it, through its design.

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