Seeing is Believing: Confronting the Invisible Impact of Our Daily Waste
"Standing in Our Own Waste" planing for
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Useful → useable
My own context
social context
For Environmental Psychology Course, Fulbright 2024
This semester, I took a course in environmental psychology where we explored the psychological factors related to environmental issues. Our final project required us to design an intervention to address an environmental problem within the context of Vietnam. Our project, titled "Standing in Our Own Waste," began with a simple observation. When we use single-use plastic items like bottled water from a convenience store, takeout in plastic containers, or plastic bags from the supermarket, we dispose of them once we're done, and the plastic waste vanishes from our view.
For our project, we collected all the trash from the bins at Fulbright University over a single day. We sorted out the plastic waste, then cleaned and dried it. The collected plastic waste serves two main purposes:
By analyzing the shapes and types of plastic items, we aim to answer two research questions: