
RING
Service Design for a Cooking Oil Recycling System
This is a system that encourages people to bring wasted oil from their fume extractor to a convenience store.
Then it can be collected and up-cycled into bio-diesel.
According to statistics, range hoods generated nearly 8000 tons of waste oil in Wuhan and Changchun City in one
year alone. There are about 2000 cities in China, which means around 8,000,000 tons of waste oil is produced every
year. Can you imagine the consequences of all of that oil being poured down water pipes and discharged into rivers?
RING’s oil collection system is an important improvement in the way that households handle excess oil. It provides an additional opportunity for up-cycling wasted oil on a domestic scale.
CREDIT
Animation : Ruochen Wang
Voice : Kevin Bickham
Date : 2012