rubbish

Map, track and clean up litter together.

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Map, track and clean up litter together.

3 followers

The Rubbish app makes cleaning litter fun! Tag litter as you pick it up on the street and create a map of what your local community litter landscape looks like. Coming soon - incentives and litter rewards 🚀

Launch tags:Internet of Things•Maps•Climate Tech

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Maker

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

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5yr ago

Songcorder

I've heard about a similar idea a few times right now. I participated in a Hackathon not that long ago where a similar MVP was produced. Great job here!

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5yr ago

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Maker

@doomhammer thanks! do you remember the name of the MVP? would love to look them up.

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5yr ago

Songcorder

@elena_guberman not really, but the Hackathon was called Hack4Change

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5yr ago

hutsyhomes

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

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5yr ago

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Maker

@abhiroop_cvk awesome! We'll be back at it tomorrow, streaming from Polk Street 😎 Tune in for more meditative litter vibes 🧘‍♀️

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5yr ago

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Maker

yesss

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5yr ago

Glow Puzzle for Android

We need this in SF! This is fantastic!

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@jacob_ilin Thank you 🤩 We agree! Don't forget to vote on where we should clean up next here: https://elena930311.typeform.com...

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5yr ago

Product Hunt

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

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5yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover thank you so much for the support. Means a lot. And YES to making litter fun! Vote on where we should clean up on a PH dedicated litter pick up live stream next week here: https://elena930311.typeform.com...

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5yr ago

Newsletter Crew

The product looks amazing! Congrats on the launch.

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@yarobagriy Thank you! We're looking forward to the road ahead, and want cleaner streets to be a norm for everyone. Appreciate the love.

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5yr ago

Metaverse Santa

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!

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@ashley_mw Thank you!

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5yr ago

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Maker

@ashley_mw Please vote on where we should clean up next here: https://elena930311.typeform.com...

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5yr ago

Such a cool idea and so needed

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@xolilly thanks so much! We agree 😉

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5yr ago

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