Checkpoint 2
3 solutions:
- Have a “Wall-E” system. Have robots come and “eat” the garbage. They can be programmed to go to certain dump sites where they will form/drop their collected garbage onto a certain spot. Then bigger “Wall-E” can come and take that garbage and destroy it so that it does not just get piled up.
- Create artificial “insects” to be able to scan the garbage and eat whatever is not biodegradable. The way it works is that their “stomachs” could be another kind of incinerator, so they are always “hungry”. Whatever is biodegradable can be digested by another type of artificial insect that would help convert it into something helpful for the environment like fertilizer.
- Creating a “smart” trash can
- This can take the garbage thrown into it, as well as recycled items
- There would be separate trash cans for each type of item
- For example, plastic bottles would have one, and this machine would turn them back into usable goods that are also clean
- There would be one for non-recyclables
- There would be one for paper, etc.
- Once someone put the item into the desired can, the trash can would use its technology to then either dispose of the product or use it to remake another version of the original product
Decision Matrix:
Health Education Piece:
We will be focusing on the ‘Wall-E’ robot idea. The specific topic within this we will be researching as well is statistics on trash in the city Manila, how the trash is handled, how much of recyclables and just regular trash is present there as well.