A sponsored project for Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice and a collaboration with Graphic Design 4 students Joseph Rosales, and Industrial Design 6 students Alessandro Pagura, Smart Cycle is a recycling system for temporary events that helps incentivize attendees to recycle. Based on progressive event waste management policies from other areas of the country and around the world, Smart Cycle serves as an example of what policy benefiting Detroit area consumers, citizens, and businesses could look like in practice.

Utilizing a smartphone application and a system of item-scanning smart bins, or “binions”, Smart Cycle incentivizes event attendees to recycle by discounting items that the user recycles from their next purchase. This service considerably limits the need for inefficient practice of staff policing waste receptacles commonly implemented at festivals today.