Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Method Ocean Plastic Initiative

Method is known as an indus­try inno­va­tor with its eco-con­s­cious line of house­hold and per­son­al care prod­ucts. The company’s lat­est inno­va­tion in sus­tain­able pack­ag­ing is a bot­tle made out of plas­tic that washed up on beach­es from the North Pacif­ic Gyre, often referred to as the Great Pacif­ic Garbage Patch or the Pacif­ic Trash Vor­tex.

Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic

Mike Bid­dle: We can recy­cle plas­tic | Video on TED.com. Less than 10% of plas­tic trash is recy­cled com­pared to almost 90% of met­als. This is because of the mas­sive­ly com­pli­cat­ed prob­lem of find­ing and sort­ing the dif­fer­ent kinds of plas­tic. Frus­trat­ed by this waste, Mike Bid­dle has devel­oped a cheap and incred­i­bly ener­gy effi­cient […]

Recycling in Savannah

How to Moti­vate Peo­ple to Cre­ate Bet­ter Recy­cling Habits through Aware­ness, Edu­ca­tion and Con­ve­nience Overview For my final project in the Design Man­age­ment pro­gram at SCAD, I want­ed to take a clos­er look at recy­cling in Savan­nah, GA. The pur­pose of my study was to reveal a bet­ter way to encour­age and enable recy­cling for […]