Tackling this ongoing project from an interaction design perspective, I concentrated on sculpting a stimulating journey from trash to treasure.
As everyone is invited to participate in this project and to try recycling at home, the requirements towards a toolset come with quite a challenge: How do you enable untrained users to melt plastic?
This led me to build a fully functional and safe-to-use appliance which combines step-by-step guidance with fully integrated furnace management.
Centerpiece is the built-in display, which shows the current status and gives instructions on the process while also teaching the principles of recycling and circularity.