rubbish - Map, track and clean up litter together.

Hi 👋 everyone! My name is Elena, and I’m the co-founder of rubbish.love 🤗 I’ve followed Product Hunt for a long time, and am excited to finally share something with the community 🚀 @eminisrafil @felipe_melivilu and I have been talking about trash for years, and are dedicating our energies to building tools that make cleaning up litter fun and easy! Our mission is to empower communities to use data to improve shared public spaces, together. Over the past year, we’ve: 🤖 Used data to cut cigarette litter by 46% with just one disposal in our pilot 🗺 Mapped data and helped deliver services to underserved neighborhoods 🎪 Dramatically reduced litter at large conferences & events 📈 Uncovered seasonal and local trends in litter 🌍 Compared cross country litter clean ups The Rubbish app is available on iOS for free to use. You can map the litter on your block, as you pick up or as an audit of your street. You can categorize litter as you go, or use our “Tag Later” mode to move at a faster pace. We intend to use machine learning for the categorization step in the future - we actually got a shout out in WWDC last year in the ML Keynote! We have taken a stand against typical trash-related colors, so the bright pink is important for us to keep things fun! We want to take the stigma away from litter, with a bright new approach to an old problem. In addition to the app, we’ve also patented a smart litter picker-upper, which connects directly to the app and let’s you pick up litter while taking pictures and collecting information! The Rubbish beam has LED lights that can be controlled from the app. Felipe is currently making these by hand (there’s a 3D printer in his closet 👷‍♂️, which used to be in Emin’s bedroom). We have identified a partner who can help us scale them! If you’re interested, let me know at elena@rubbish.love Next up for us is the launch of our in-app Cleanup Marketplace, where people will be able to identify a block that needs cleaning and residents will be rewarded for cleaning up! We are also speaking to companies now about sponsorships, custom branded rubbish beams, and using our platform to fulfill CSR or EPA mandates. As a special PH launch treat, we’re going to have you all choose the next part of San Francisco that we clean! Vote here (https://elena930311.typeform.com...) and we’ll live stream it on reddit r/pan next week. Drop us a line on PH, email me at elena@rubbish.love or twitter @rubbish_love - happy to talk trash anytime! Until soon friends ✨ Lane

Watched y'all on RPAN and it was SO therapeutic :'( Y'all are so amazing <3

We need this in SF! This is fantastic!

I've been following the rubbish project for a while (Dec 2018) so I'm excited to see this PH launch! Feel free to reach out to me or our team at Mapbox if you'd like some tips on integrating a more customized map experience (Facebook, Snapchat, Lonely Planet, and Ancestry are just a few examples of teams driving user engagement with Mapbox maps). Congrats!

You turned trash clean up into a game. Brilliant. ✨

The product looks amazing! Congrats on the launch.

Love this! And especially seeing what's happened to the streets in SF during the lockdown, easier, safe ways to clean up streets is so needed. Congrats to the team!

Such a cool idea and so needed

Love this initiative! My husband and I clean up the beach we go to each time and gather one or two grocery bags of trash. It makes me feel like I'm doing my part to keep the environment beautiful. I will say categorizing the trash would be difficult.

Love what you are doing to help clean our streets! So needed in many urban centers!

This is so great! Congrats!!

You guys are rock stars! Thank you for being a driving force in the fight against litter. We need this in Puerto Rico!!!

I've been following yall, very cool product! Love the maps feature. Was wondering if there are any ways to get plugged in to cleanup group in SF?

Looks great!

This is so awesome! I'm stoked to see this exist in the world.

Hey Elena and team Congrats! Go crowdsourcing! Can you tell a bit about the IoT component... Is the tracker on the roadmap BLE device? The one 3D Printed as of now...

Excited to see you live! It's been quite a journey and you're doing amazing things!

I like that it’s one of those products that address actual problems outside tech bubble. Though i guess there’s no clear cut answer whether problems like this should be solved on governmental/legislation level or consumer.

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This is very cool Elena. I would love to continue to hear success stories of the impact on litter reduction on the site.