Personal Apartment Composting Bin

Abstract: This project aims to explore the possibilities of living sustainable lives in urban environments. I focus my project on food waste composting in apartments. I collected interviews about the problems people had with disposing of food waste in their apartments, and by searching the literature to select the most suitable composting ways. I have studied and summarized the problems of current products through market research. When designing my own products, I have tried to solve and optimize these problems as much as possible. I finally design a device that can finish the whole composting process for people who live alone in apartments or other housing environment without a garden or backyard. Through this project, I discovered that sustainability can be seen as a healthy attitude to life. What designers can do is to guide users to practice this kind of life through products, and bring users more convenient and high-quality experience in the process of practice.