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Make small changes meaningful.

MYPACT is an impact buying service that provides a simple way to understand the environmental impact of your purchases and the way you dispose of your waste. Through our service, you can be rewarded for trying alternative green solutions that help you live a circular life and benefit your community and the planet.

In collaboration with:

Chenxian Meng

There are 4 main features that we provide for consumers:

Visualize - We visualize the impact of consumer behavior and disposal behavior to visualize its positive or negative impact on the environment, providing weekly reports to show an overview of your impact on the environment and to record changes in consumption behavior.

Guidance - A clear and simple guidance for your waste disposal and find the best way to manage your waste.

Alternative - We offer personalized recommendations for greener options based on your shopping profile to help you easily develop more positive shopping habits.

Offset - Redeem your MYPACT points to donate to your community infrastructure and events, or you can redeem vouchers at our partner retailers for your next shopping.

What we changed and what value do we provide？

MYPACT will benefit stakeholders at each level.

Producer - We are driving producers to reduce unsustainable materials at the source and provide more real recyclable material options.

Retailer - We promote more waste responsibility for retailers, i.e. offering alternative options or managing the materials they sell, helping them boost their sustainable service and strategy.

Consumer - We aim to facilitate the conversion of users into users with a positive impact on consumption.

Community - Reducing the pressure on waste disposal and waste pollution, while injecting more financial support into the community.

As an impact buying service, MYPACT is a free app for consumers with in-app purchases for some extra features (personalized recommendations) as well as small monthly fees for free shipping. We will serve branded content and ads paid for retail brands to promote their green products. Meanwhile, We make money from selling the consuming impact data report on sustainability to consulting companies.

Despite coving only 3% of the landmass around the globe, known peatlands store at least double the carbon as standing forests in their near natural state.

Peatland, also widely known as bogs, fens and swamp forests, are the largest natural terrestrial carbon storage ecosystem. From a climate perspective, peat soils plays an essential but often overlooked role in mitigating the effects of climate change and stablising the carbon cycle.

However, peatland emit large amounts of greenhouse gases when faced with alarming threats of degradation and overexploitation. Arcorss the globe, large surfaces of peatlands had undergone conversions and drainages due to economic activities, making it susceptible to fire hazards.

So that peatland becomes a solution rather than a contributor to climate change, restoration is urgent and vital.

In collaboration with:

Tong Lo (MA/MSc Global Innovation Design)

Puyang Liu (MA Environmantel Architecture)

Ran Duan (MA Interior Design).

Caring for the environment should be a profitable business.

Currently, the carbon market is dominated by woodland and forestry carbon-offset schemes. As peatland store significantly more carbon than a typical forest, it is thus relevant to look into how the growing carbon market could finance the future of peatland transition and restoration programmes.

Every year, students moving in and out of their accommodation generates up to 200 tonnes of waste.

London is home to over 400,000 students. The number of students studying in London is expected to increase, with international students becoming the main group in the rental accommodation market. Simultaneously, Covid-19 has made travelling harder to planned for, leading to more students renting for shorter terms and resorting to sub-letting options.

Large amounts of usable goods are disposed as waste when students move in and out of rented accommodation. This highlight a key market need for alternative ways of dealing with these products.

2022 Student Service Design Challenge

In collaboration with:

Jie Huang, Sa

Tong Lo

Bilin Liang

AKI aims to alleviate the hassle and destress of moving for students, so they can lead an independent live that lives up to their expectations.

Although 16-24 year olds are more likely to prioritise sustainability actions, their conscientiousness for the environmental could go out of the window when it comes to moving, due to the stress of planning and fear of losing deposits.

When objects changed from being first hand to second hand, it is common for people to think that it depreciated in value, especially for household items. This is one of the reason why students are less motivated to buy or sell. We designed unique digital experiences within the app as a way to add emotional value to second hand objects and encourage second hand trading.