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ROW ︎ REPUBLIC OF ORGANIC WASTE
Every year, NYC generates more than 14 million tons of waste and recyclables in our homes, businesses, schools, streets, and construction sites. The city spends around 2.3 billion dollars disposing waste, which greater than the annual budget for some countries. As diagrams and data are given by DSNY show: the valuable organic waste has a great potential to be reused and composted. Also, the residential organic waste has a great potential (more than 65%) for diversion. This project aims to increase the recovery of organic waste from the residential waste stream in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side. As a communications designer, I intended to classify and visualize the data I collected. Visualizing and mapping out a complicated system through a typological system could be more legible to understand.
