Project carriers: Recycle Coach is a company owned by Creighton Hooper, and it was founded in Canada in 2001 as a recycling calendar company. In 2010, the app was launched.
Beneficiaries: As with all sustainability initiatives, the environment benefits most of all. Also, people benefit from the increased recycling knowledge.
Users: Individuals, municipalities/local governments, and companies.
Need: People are not very good at recycling, as evidenced by the contamination of materials that need recycling. Information about how to go about recycling and managing waste is not very accessible, and the environment suffers, but the local recycling costs also go up as a result.
Principle: It educates people about the right way to recycle, and it provides important information about recycling according to the user’s location.
Main technologies involved: ioS/Android app, databases, map API, GPS.
Project carriers: The app was developed by Bluestone Apps for Royal Rolloffs, a company that offers dumpster rental services in Missouri.
Beneficiaries: Clients of Royal Rolloffs and event planners who are located in Missouri.
Users: Individuals and companies for their events.
Need: The logistics of renting dumpsters and other waste collection for events can be daunting and time consuming, especially when you factor in the time it takes to get a quote for the service a user would like to request.
Principle: It brings about a way to efficiently supply users with dumpster/porta-potty rentals by providing real-time quotes, delivery and pickup logistics management, notifications, and on-demand service.
Main technologies involved: ioS application, database, AI
Project carrier: Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Beneficiaries: Facilities that generate hazardous waste. Also individuals that may be affected by the incorrect disposal of hazardous waste.
Users: Facilities that generate hazardous waste.
Need: In Kansas state, it required that hazardous waste generators conduct and document hazardous waste determinations. However, the process may be hard to understand and therefore comply with.
Principle: It provides a questionnaire about waste generation at the facility and uses the answers to generate a report for the state. Thus, the process is intuitive and takes out the guesswork for facilities.
Main technologies involved: Android app, user's smartphone.
Project carrier: TrashOut is an NGO based out of Slovak Republic.
Beneficiaries: The environment and individuals who want to recycle more.
Users: Individuals who notice illegal dumps.
Need: One of the biggest problems concerning waste management is illegal dumping, especially as there are often no ways to report these dumps.
Principle: It provides a tool for people to map and report these dump sites, enabling cleaning events to be organised in these locations. Users can take and upload pictures of dumps, and they can also find data on already reported dumpsites so that they can clean up.
Main technologies involved: Android/iOS app, map APIs, GPS, databases