WORKING PROBLEM STATEMENT
Graduate residential students have challenges and issues with garbage recycling in their apartments. It appears that the small size of the bins and the unclear destination of each bin creates a sort of “bottleneck” in the recycling process: there are recycle rooms in each dorm’s floor but it seems that most of the garbage goes to the landfill because it’s very hard to divide it inside the single apartments.
NOTES
This happens mostly because the bins are very tiny and there are no accessible instructions about how / where to put items.
The recycling/landfill room available on each floor is therefore not used in an efficient way because most of the garbage produced in the apartments goes to the landfill.
Also, a lot of students are foreigners and are not really acquainted with US regulations about recycling > QR code with instructions and games related?
Some of them might not be interested in recycling as well so there should be something helping find more commitment (eg limited number of usage of the landfill? / benefits related to recycling?)