Digital Product / Project 01
ReCollect
A digital waste collection and recycling ecosystem, designed for Syria and initially focused on Damascus.
Overview
Connecting households, local businesses, collection teams and recycling partners through a coordinated digital service.
ReCollect is being developed as a connected service concept for requesting and recording collections, tracking materials and rewarding participation.
The problem
Why this work matters
Recyclable materials, collection activity and participation can be difficult to coordinate across residents, businesses, drivers and recycling partners.
Approach
From need to system
ReCollect is being developed as a connected service concept for requesting and recording collections, tracking materials and rewarding participation.
Product concept and system design, bringing operational requirements together with an evolving digital product architecture.
Architecture
How the pieces fit
- Customer and driver mobile application concepts
- API-led services and a shared data layer
- Administrative dashboard for collections and operations
- Containerized deployment concepts with HTTPS and Nginx
Capabilities
Features & focus
- Customer identity and QR-based identification concept
- Collection transactions, material types, weights and quality
- Customer points and merchant rewards concept
- Driver, collection and operational management
- Analytics and financial transaction tracking concepts
Data flow
Customer or business requests a collection
↓A driver records collection materials, weight and quality
↓The system updates operational records and customer points
↓Administrators review activity and operational summaries
Visual documentation
Screenshots
No public screenshots are available yet. Future visuals will use sanitized or mock-data examples.
Challenges
- Designing a usable service around varied collection participants
- Accounting for connectivity and operational realities
- Keeping payment and rewards integrations clearly separated from the concept
Lessons learned
- A useful digital product starts with clear operational workflows.
- Trust and data quality depend on consistent records at the point of collection.
Next steps
Roadmap
- Refine user workflows and product requirements
- Build and test a focused prototype
- Validate the collection and rewards model with local stakeholders
- Evaluate payment integrations only when feasible and agreed