Improvising Waste Management through

Storytelling and Visualizations

Challenge

Now a days, human beings has become so fragile that we are getting  infected with various diseases and researches are finding new ways to  deal with all sort of diseases and viruses. I have volunteered in a waste  management organization. It’s a non-profit organization, working to  reduce the solid waste in big metropolitan city Karachi – Pakistan. This  city has been ranked at the top of the most polluted cities of the world.  Municipal committee has shortage of resources to deal with this huge  amount of waste being produced twenty four hours a day. Our challenge  was to utilize the available resources in most economical and beneficial  way. One of the biggest challenge was that the people are not taking this  issue seriously and not assisting the authorities also.

Selection

This course has really expanded my knowledge in problem solving. It  really helps me to analyze the situation. With the team of seniors and my  fellow colleagues, I came up with an idea of developing a network of team  who would visit every colony and deliver the lectures on waste  management, pollution and its side effects.

The team will work with two tools storytelling and visualization. To  complete our analysis of variables for our story we analyzed different  surveys and researches. This strengthens our story and to aid our story  with attraction we used visualization.

Application

As just said earlier, we studied different surveys and researches of leading  research centers. We gathered our material for storytelling. As storytelling  is one of the best tool to engage other person and it helps to connect with  your audience as well. We needed more information and expertise before  going into public and motivating them towards waste management.

After having perfect story for our audience we started working on  visualizing what we are saying. We visualized different scenarios and

situations in which we depicted how we are getting effected from the  waste pollution and its devastating effects on our environment as well.

Insight

Our efforts really paid off. Tens of localities have recorded significant  decrease in the miss-management of waste. People become more  conscious while getting over from the waste. They started to use proper  bags and bins for the waste. Children were taking more interest than  elders.

Approach

For this time our approach was simple. We have noticed that children are  passionate for our project and they are willing to take part in these healthy  activities in future. That’s why we are hoping to engage them in our  campaign and we’ll try learning launches for our next project.

