Even in today's urbanized cities around the world, there is still an absence of recycling and proper trash systems due to numerous issues, but the Toknee by Yash Mevada is a design that will help make garbage collection easier.
In urban cities such as Mumbai, there are poverty stricken people who make a living by thriving in wastelands, collecting plastic to earn a living collecting only about a dollar a day. They are called 'rag pickers,' and are the ones who scavenge for plastic waste and other goods to make a living.
Garbage bins are usually vandalized or stolen, but the Toknee is made out of concrete to avoid these problems. The Toknee will make it easier for rag pickers to collect garbage, minimizing health and sanitary problems prevalent in their everyday lives.
What's Driving This Trend
- Sustainable Waste Management
- By addressing the issue of proper garbage collection, the trend of sustainable waste management can create disruptive innovation opportunities in urban cities.
- Inclusive Design
- The Toknee's design caters to the needs and challenges of poverty-stricken rag pickers, highlighting the trend of inclusive design that can spur innovation in addressing social inequalities.
- Economic Empowerment
- The practice of scavenging for plastic waste can be transformed into a formalized industry, presenting opportunities for economic empowerment and entrepreneurship.
Who This Affects Most
- Waste Management
- The waste management industry can explore disruptive innovations that improve collection methods, infrastructure, and the overall sustainability of waste systems.
- Social Impact
- The social impact industry can focus on developing solutions that address the needs and challenges faced by marginalized communities, such as poverty-stricken rag pickers.
- Plastics Recycling
- In the plastics recycling industry, disruptive innovation opportunities lie in creating value chains that optimize the collection and recycling of plastic waste, while also improving the livelihoods of those involved in the process.
