Finalizing Infographic and Specific Context

Finalizing Infographic

For the hair graph I decided to replace it with electric wires. The data looked more accurate and also looked better.

Then I've played around with some layouts on Indesign and got these:

The last one looked better in terms of spacing so I decided to go with it, however my lecturer told me to make the title more interesting. So I went on looking and found a pretty interesting one.

Specific Context

Based on Vivian Tan’s talk there already exist a plan on how to make bioplastic more available and sustainable, however the missing elements from her talk was, first, would consumers be willing to use bioplastic over the conventional petroleum based plastic, how much do consumers care about the environment, and secondly, is bioplastic suitable to all kinds of plastic products that already exist.

Based on this, my research was conducted in 2 parts. First, a survey was shared on Facebook groups to reach out to different people from different countries with different income level to find out more about the concern of consumers on plastic pollution. From the survey result, it was found that everybody thinks almost the same, their concerns about plastic pollution and thoughts on bioplastic was almost the same. 84 out of 149 people recycle and most of these people were from urban areas which means that most rural areas do not have recycling facilities. It was also found that people do care a lot about the environment and even though some people did point out a few negative point on bioplastic like, there may not be enough material to make it replace all the plastic in the world, it might not become as cheap as petroleum based plastic or it might deplete our natural resources more, they said that they will support it. A few other information was obtained like a practice of paying extra fees on plastic bottles to ensure that the consumer return the bottle for recycling in Netherlands, plastic is cheap because of the extraction of hydrocarbons and few people also mentioned that money will come in play when consumers will have to decided between conventional plastic and bioplastic.

For the second part, an observation was done based on my own consumption of plastic products in my apartment. The plastic products were categorized as electronic, hygiene, food item, stationary, misc. (for products that could not be categorized), tools and utensils, footwear, accessories, bags, pharmacy, containers and cleaning. Among all the different categories, products that already exist in another material like wood or glass and products that had potential to be made into bioplastic were noted. Based on this, it was found that most single use plastic could be turned into bioplastic, however some product that are made to last for a long period of time like water pipes or food containers might not be suitable for bioplastic as it may decompose during certain conditions in different countries.