E-waste for interior accessories: an exploration of material recycling

Abstract

The development of an electronics-based industry that produces products with power sources as a supporting facility for daily life will not stop. Not only has the product shelf time, electronics are encouraging people to renew their old collection by the time they follow the latest one. This trend has continuously changing lifestyle into consumerism that leads the future of electronic waste. The older electronic products were quickly replaced with the emergence of new model with new design and more complete features. When the time comes, electronic products become obsolete and useless. These obsolete objects are included in the category of electronic waste. Electronic waste is a type of waste that cannot be decomposed by soil and is not renewable. E-waste is a type of recycled waste by reuse it in the form of smaller pieces to produce new product that are completely different from previous products. This research aims to analyse interior accessories design ideas related to local culture as a way to use electronic waste so that it can be used sustainably. Wickering (anyaman) technique is one of the process to recycle will be applied to e-waste by stringing parts of electronic waste materials into local Betawi cultural inspiration as a comprehensive study. The idea is the exploration of electronic waste through the local wisdom of Betawi pattern. This study uses the design thinking method and qualitative methodology on collecting data.