Recycling Club, Beijing, China
Beijing's Recycling Club stimulates the demand for waste recycling in the community.
The information on this project was compiled by students from the University of Geneva as part of the Urban Futures Workshop (full report).
The Club receives extensive attention from surrounding communities. The use of disruptive technology in the recycling project in the community has empowered community engagement and regeneration. (IoT sensors, real-time monitoring, community survey tool). The objective is to regenerate abandoned street-front spaces to create a place for the community to recycle waste. Aobag.com uses social media to encourage recycling and innovatively improve the recycling rate in China.
Date: July 2020 - September 2020
Implementation period : 3 months
Time life of the project: Ongoing
Cost: undisclosed
Status of land: Public
Type of place: Public
Stakeholders
- Local public stakeholders: Beijing/Shuangjing governments, municipal solid waste management etc.
- Local private stakeholders: third party, aobag.com, Philanthropreneur Foundation.
- Civil society: community residents, users, inhabitants.
Target audience
Local residents, Households
Citizen participation
Co-design; Co-production; Mobilization
Types of action
- Events, infrastructure
- Citizen participation, innovation
Types of intervention
- Street intervention
- New recycling place
- Waste recycling education
Innovation
Aobag.com uses a Wechat mini-application for recycling and reimbursing residents.
Results
The objective of educating and promoting recycling has been achieved in the community. The limitation is that the tech-empowered regeneration causes barriers for those who are not adept at new technologies such as the use of smartphones, apps, etc. Another barrier for the project was the lack of involvement of Jiulong Residential Community Committee in the initial stage of the project makes the Recycling Club not the priority for the village-level government.
Contact
Aobag.com
Beijing Community, Research Center
Resources
World Bank Group. (2021) A case study of Shuangjing Subdistrict, Beijing. Participatory community regeneration by disruptive technologies. Jan 2021
Data
- Type of action : valorisation
- State : Démarrage