PSS assignment - Peer Commenting

Peer commenting

Chieh Min Lee - Rebat

Frankie Tsz Hin Ho - GPS bike system

Huan Xie - Trip Planner

Gu Yuliang - Dish vending machine

Siting lin - Baby cloths RVM

PSS project - G.E.R Glass Reverse Vending Machine

For this PSS assignment I’ve decided to design PSS that will be able to recycle glasses,

as I’ve been researching, I realize that there is actually a large percentage of glass bottles that are not being recycled but thrown into landfill, this shows that there is an actual need to get these glass packaging recycled.

The current reverse vending machines have problems, which I've researched on shows that these machines are currently really inconvenient; some people don't even know it exists. They do not offer attractive rewards, which motivates people to recycle and that the machine is really slow in processing, people have to put bottles in one by one.

With this glass reverse vending machine, all you have to do is press the start button and pour all the glass bottles into the machine at once instead of doing it one by one. Threes a sensor, which scans the bottles, if it does not match the requirement the item will be rejected and will be exit at the lower part of the machine. The glass bottles are crushed into cullets and filtered into three categories, which represents the three types of glasses, the brown, green and clear glass. These glass cullets are put into bags, which will be taken away by the staff of recycling facilities. But instead of transporting it to the recycling facility, it is brought over straight to the glass bottle manufactures. The advantages of this machine is that people will be able to see how the bottles are being filters from the middle part of the machine which will be something interesting to watch which will attract children. They will be able to pour all the bottles in at ones that save a lot of time. The reward is not just cash but also lotteries.

It's going to be located in multiple locations like outside supermarket, liquor stores and fuel stations. This makes it really convenient for people, they would not have to bring it over just to recycle but bring it out with them when they are about to buy groceries or alcohol.