Designed and developed as a course project by the Industrial Design Center (IDC) students at IIT-Bombay, the Sustain-o-bin is an interactive dustbin with three sensors to follow people, to demarcate its boundaries and to acknowledge the good work done whenever it is stuffed with trash. Entirely made from waste material including cardboard from computer boxes and old newspapers, the bin was chosen for an international design conference on sustainability held at IDC this month.
People feel free to litter anywhere and everywhere. We thought that if people can’t walk up to the dustbin, we would design a dustbin that would walk up to them and ask them to put trash into it.
Says Aniruddha Kadam, the member of the design team that also includes Ajay Mittal, Aniket Sarangdhar, Mandar Sarnaik, Saurabh Srivastava and Shaswath V. These are all second-year students of Interaction Design. Since the bin is a movable one, it is powered by a rechargeable battery to maintain its agility.
Via: Mumbai Mirror