Ciclo is a system of door to door separate household waste collection in low-income communities to be carried out with solar-powered quadricycles. It is designed for the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project envisages the scaling up of the service by executing it during the sporting events that will be hosted by the city in the next years, as well as in the most advanced - in terms of innovation and sustainability - neighbourhoods of the city. Rio de Janeiro produces 10 000 tons of waste every day (half of it is domestic) and recycles just the 3% of it. The most of the recycling material is collected by informal workers called “catadores” without proper tools. These are at the base of the chain of resellers who speculate on the commercialization of recyclables. Actually the separate waste collection presents big gaps and is not introduced in the whole city. The municipality is working on a program of implementation and development of the selective waste collection, which plans the construction of six stations for the collection, separation and commercialization of recyclables to be executed by “catadores” cooperatives. The aims of the project are: - first, to integrate the use of low-emission vehicles in the municipal program of implementation and development of the selective waste collection, covering areas which are not currently included by the program itself; - to establish a network of actors, which interact in a sustainable way, overcoming the intermediate resellers chain of the recycling market; - to integrate marginalized people who already operate in the context, improving their socio-economical conditions by offering them formal work opportunities; - finally, to act as an agent of sustainable change, improving the living conditions of the population and creating awareness about the importance of a correct use and disposal of resources. The thesis is part of an open project fostered by the Department of Innovation for Sustainability of Politecnico di Milano which aims at spreding sustainable mobility systems through the activation of various pilot projects which can be developed in different low-income contexts, in collaboration with universities, local companies, NGOs and administrations. The work consisted at first in identifying an intervention context in the city of Rio and carrying out a strategic analysis, in order to generate solutions oriented to sustainability. A set of promising strategic possibilities - which helped to get to the formalization of the actual concept vision - was then generated.Finally, the system was developed on a more specific level in order to be ready for the implementation. The results of the project are: - the identification and involvement of a network of stakeholders (defining their roles, motivations and mutual interactions), which took part in the co-design process and set the bases for the implementation of the project; - the proposal of a concept vision for a sustainable Product-Service System and an hypothesis of transition path toward the introduction and scaling up of the innovation; - the design of a self standing pilot project capable to be reproduced and multiplied in similar contexts; - the design of a small-scale socio-technical experiment, aimed at learning and exploring how to improve the PSS innovation and how to contribute to its societal embedding; - the design of the scaling up process.
Ciclo è un sistema di raccolta differenziata domiciliare dei rifiuti porta a porta in comunità carenti, svolta attraverso l’uso di quadricicli ad energia solare. Si tratta di un servizio progettato per la città di Rio di Janeiro in Brasile. Il progetto prevede lo “scaling up” del servizio applicandolo anche durante lo svolgimento degli eventi sportivi che la città ospiterà nei prossimi anni e nei quartieri più all’avanguardia in termini di innovazione e sostenibilità. Rio de Janeiro produce diariamente 10 000 tonnellate di rifiuti (la metà domestici) e ne ricicla solamente il 3%. La maggior parte di questa percentuale viene raccolto da lavoratori informali chiamati “catadores”, i quali operano senza gli strumenti adeguati e sono l’anello più debole della catena di rivenditori che speculano sulla commercializzazione di materiali riciclabili. Attualmente la raccolta differenziata non è introdotta in tutta la città e presenta molte lacune. Il comune sta lavorando su un programma di implementazione ed espansione della raccolta differenziata che prevede la costruzione di 6 centrali per la raccolta, trattamento e commercializzazione di materiali riciclabili effettuati da cooperative di “catadores”. Gli obiettivi del progetto sono: - integrare l’uso di veicoli a basse emissioni nel programma municipale di implementazione ed espansione della raccolta differenziata, coprendo le aree da esso escluse; - formare una rete di attori, che interagiscano in maniera sostenibile, superando la catena di intermediari del mercato del riciclaggio; - integrare persone emarginate che già operano nel contesto, migliorando le loro condizioni economiche attraverso l’offerta di opportunità lavorative formalizzate.; - fungere da agente per un cambiamento sostenibile, migliorando le condizioni di vita della popolazione e sensibilizzando sull’importanza del corretto uso e smaltimento delle risorse. Questa tesi si inserisce in una strategia più ampia di promozione e diffusione di progetti di mobilità sostenibile che l’unità di ricerca Design e Innovazione di sistema per la Sostenibilità (DIS)del dipartimento INDACO sta portando avanti. Un “open project” che può essere sviluppato in diversi contesti in collaborazione con università, aziende locali, NGOs e amministrazioni. Il lavoro é consistito innanzitutto nell’ identificare un contesto di intervenzione nella città di Rio de Janeiro e nello svolgere un’analisi strategica per la generazione di soluzioni volte alla sostenibilità. Successivamente è stato generato un catalogo di possibilità strategiche promettenti, il quale ha aiutato a formalizzare la visione di concetto. Infine il sistema è stato sviluppato nello specifico in modo da essere pronto per l’implementazione. I risultati del progetto sono: - l’ identificazione e il coinvolgimento di una rete di stakeholders ( e la definizione dei loro ruoli, motivazioni e interazioni), che ha partecipato nel processo di co-progettazione e costituisce la base per l’implementazione del progetto; - la proposta di una visione di concetto per un Sistema di Prodotto- Servizio e un ipotesi di percorso di transizione per la sua introduzione e diffusione; - la progettazione di un progetto pilota autonomo, che può essere riprodotto e moltiplicato in contesti simili; - La progettazione di un esperimento socio-tecnico in piccola scala per capire come migliorare il sistema e come facilitare il suo inserimento sociale; - Il design del processo di “scaling up”.
Ciclo. Coleta seletiva solar. Design of a sustainable product service system for waste collection in Rio de Janeiro's low income communities
DIMAI, KATHRIN
2011/2012
Abstract
Ciclo is a system of door to door separate household waste collection in low-income communities to be carried out with solar-powered quadricycles. It is designed for the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project envisages the scaling up of the service by executing it during the sporting events that will be hosted by the city in the next years, as well as in the most advanced - in terms of innovation and sustainability - neighbourhoods of the city. Rio de Janeiro produces 10 000 tons of waste every day (half of it is domestic) and recycles just the 3% of it. The most of the recycling material is collected by informal workers called “catadores” without proper tools. These are at the base of the chain of resellers who speculate on the commercialization of recyclables. Actually the separate waste collection presents big gaps and is not introduced in the whole city. The municipality is working on a program of implementation and development of the selective waste collection, which plans the construction of six stations for the collection, separation and commercialization of recyclables to be executed by “catadores” cooperatives. The aims of the project are: - first, to integrate the use of low-emission vehicles in the municipal program of implementation and development of the selective waste collection, covering areas which are not currently included by the program itself; - to establish a network of actors, which interact in a sustainable way, overcoming the intermediate resellers chain of the recycling market; - to integrate marginalized people who already operate in the context, improving their socio-economical conditions by offering them formal work opportunities; - finally, to act as an agent of sustainable change, improving the living conditions of the population and creating awareness about the importance of a correct use and disposal of resources. The thesis is part of an open project fostered by the Department of Innovation for Sustainability of Politecnico di Milano which aims at spreding sustainable mobility systems through the activation of various pilot projects which can be developed in different low-income contexts, in collaboration with universities, local companies, NGOs and administrations. The work consisted at first in identifying an intervention context in the city of Rio and carrying out a strategic analysis, in order to generate solutions oriented to sustainability. A set of promising strategic possibilities - which helped to get to the formalization of the actual concept vision - was then generated.Finally, the system was developed on a more specific level in order to be ready for the implementation. The results of the project are: - the identification and involvement of a network of stakeholders (defining their roles, motivations and mutual interactions), which took part in the co-design process and set the bases for the implementation of the project; - the proposal of a concept vision for a sustainable Product-Service System and an hypothesis of transition path toward the introduction and scaling up of the innovation; - the design of a self standing pilot project capable to be reproduced and multiplied in similar contexts; - the design of a small-scale socio-technical experiment, aimed at learning and exploring how to improve the PSS innovation and how to contribute to its societal embedding; - the design of the scaling up process.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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