shop judiciously, shop plasticfree
Names of collaboration team members:
Team from Wetzikon (Zurich): Leara & Jasmina
Team from Kerala (India):
Team from Borgo Valsugana (Italy):
Research Question:
- Is it possible to not use plastic for your shopping? (link to our post: )
- How much plastic does Indians, italians and Swiss people use for their shoppings?
- What alternatives are there?
Project description, methods/techniques, etc.
- Survey in India, Italy and Switzerland about
>Product: Evaluation
- Search allternatives, and how we can produce them.
>Product: produce some allternatives (one kid per family)
- All the families should collect their plastic waste over a certain period of time. Afterwards they should use our "shopping kid" over the same period of time.
> Comparison
Diverse, e.g. material needed, difficulties
- online plattform for surveys
- material (fabric, glasses, etc.)
- one difficulty could be, that we have to find some sponsors
- an other dfficulty could be the proper understanding
Goal/Result
We want to answer the following question: How much plastic is wastet for shoppings and how could we avert that?
and we want to show how much unnecesarry plastic we use for our purchases.