Team ‘Alpha’ comes up with the Innovative Idea to Tackle Mismanagement and Dumping of Plastic Waste
24-Aug-2020
Social Innovation Program for the First Year students emphasises on approaching a problem in a holistic manner ensuring that the students have different perspectives to better understand community issues. Empathy towards Social Causes trains To-be Engineers to connect to Social Issues and come up with viable and implementable solutions.
Team Alpha with members Shobith Mallya, Rohan, Anjani Singh, Melriya Sequeira, Sakshi Alva and Payal Suresh of section F, set out to tackle the issue of Mismanagement and dumping of Plastic Waste, during the course of the Social Innovation Program.
Seventy Five Percent of the total Global Waste is majorly Plastic, i.e. a whopping 6.2 Bn tonnes out of 8.3 Bn tonnes! The complete eradication of this life easing invention is impossible, given the demand. So, the team proposes better management and up-cycling of these materials.
Team Alpha came up with the idea of Polycycle after rigorous interviews and field visits during the program, where they introduced 3 different concepts to deal with piling plastic waste, bringing together Community Awareness, Collection Points and Up-cycling including the open sourced concept of Precious Plastic. They propagate the idea of Refusing, Rethinking and responsibly disposing Waste. The team has come up with the prototype and deployed a website for Polycycle.
These innovations are a gateway for the budding juniors to join our institution and explore a world of new possibilities.
