Recycling Stations – Wastesavers

Wastesavers operate recycling services in Newport as well as 10 reuse shops across South East Wales. However, they are more than a recycling company they are also a charity providing support to communities through various services such as affordable or free IT support and educating school children about the circular economy.

Wastesavers aim to educate future generations about recycling from a young age, both how it works and its importance. This is best shown in an array of new interactive recycling exhibits they had commissioned – created and designed by Think Orchard and brought to life using hardware from Blackbox-av.

There are 5 stations in total – at each visitors take a recyclable item and insert it through a glowing ‘scanner’, triggering a sequence of events that begins with a short video about how Wastesavers recycle that particular material, be it Plastic, Metal, Glass, Paper or food.

The video is displayed on our 32″ MediaScreen while audio is played via our double cup armoured cable headphones (with robustness an important consideration for this young visitor demographic). Users are then prompted to answer a series of educational questions relating to the recycling process of each particular material.

Each station is a little bit different for example there is a magnetic grabber game built into the metal recycling station, but each follows a similar interactive journey for the user.

The hands-on nature of these stations keeps the school groups fully engaged in the process – promoting the desired educational outcome of children much more aware of what it means to recycle, why we do it and why it’s important.