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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Anima Playground — AI with an Eye for Design

AI with an Eye for Design

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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

rubbish

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

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?

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@henryyang89 thanks for following the journey! We post about cleanups on Instagram and Facebook (give us a follow!) and sign up to our newsletter at www.rubbish.love Also, look up SF Rubbishers on Nextdoor - we do group (socially distant) cleanups monthly. In the coming months, we are launching our cleanup marketplace where you can sponsor a block to get cleaned or clean a block to get rewards 🤩

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5yr ago

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...

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@zurgun Hey, thanks! Yes, the grabber is a BLE device

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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

rubbish

Maker

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

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5yr ago

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!

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5yr ago

Also, I just caught the invitation to "talk trash" 🤣 👏

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@segheysens 🤣 who doesn't love a good pun?

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5yr ago

Product Hunt

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.

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5yr ago

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Maker

@jacqvon thanks for the cleanups that you've done 💜 Our app has a categorize later feature, so that you can still pick up quickly. The goal is to have this automatically done, and give you a breakdown of what you picked up (along with maps). We've used info like this to put up a cigarette disposal in just the right spot and it cut cigarette litter by 46% in just 2 weeks!

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5yr ago

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

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5yr ago

rubbish

Maker

@paulina_salach_antonetti yes! we're coming for that litter soon 🧹

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5yr ago

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