Team details

Team members

• Jantakan Kariya
• Yada Klinsanit
• Patiphan Chanpuang

Project details

Describe your product and your key goals

<aside> <img src="/icons/apple_blue.svg" alt="/icons/apple_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your product Blue Ocean Plastic Recycling is focused on waste management in Koh Samui. Our product is an innovative waste bank model that combines technology and community engagement to encourage recycling and waste separation

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<aside> <img src="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" alt="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" width="40px" /> What you want to achieve by March 2025

• 6 months: Completing a new waste bank model that better engages with or responds to the needs of the tourism sector or increases engagement from local people and Tourism Sectors through the implementation of technology and design to our waste station. Also, by integrating our youth tour guide into the network, the program can bridge some gaps between the communities and tourism sector in their waste management endeavors and better guarantee the future of the waste bank network as well as that of their job opportunities in 2-year time after these 6 months. Next, this program is poised to yield a set of tangible or traceable impacts on the environment, preventing or reducing waste leakage into the ocean by adding much-needed waste management infrastructure and communities.
• 2 years: To expand our existing network of waste banks to different islands and to develop our project by implementing a more technology-centric waste station center, likely to be controlled by AI. This automation will help its users sort the types of plastic, weigh the plastic fed into the waste bank, and calculate the points automatically, replacing the current waste station system that relies heavily on manpower. The youth tour guides, who are now trained by our program, will lead the community towards more environmental commitments as well as build a better connection or further collaboration with the tourism sector on various environmental or social causes. </aside>

Describe your customers and the problem you are solving

<aside> <img src="/icons/brain_blue.svg" alt="/icons/brain_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your target customers

• Tourism sector
• Everyone who Lives, Stays, and Travels in Samui </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" alt="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" width="40px" /> What pain points are you trying to solve?

• Plastic leakage into the Ocean is a big issue caused by the tourism sector. </aside>

Describe what you need the most

<aside> <img src="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" alt="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Describe the kinds of help you need the most (funding, expertise, technology, access, etc.)

• Need 1: Expertise
• Need 2 Funding </aside>

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