TrashPick App
A major problem we identify in our community is the lack of convenient methods for people to proper dispose waste. This has led to many environmental issues including the plastic pollution. Therefore, we decided to develop a mobile app where people could ask the trash-collectors to come to their households and collect the trash properly.
TrashPick App By using this app, people could schedule a trash pick-up so it is notified for the trash-collectors nearby such that one can accept the pick-up and carry the trash to a recycling center. We believe this method is a convenient method rather than going to a recycling center and handing over the trash. We launched a beta version of the app for people chooses from Kurunegala. We also added an in-app rewarding system and articles in our app to aware people about environmental issues.
One of the leading courses for environment pollution is the lack of proper and easy method for waste disposal. Our app creates a link between people and trash-collectors such that a proper method of waste disposal is accessible for many people at their fingertips. As this is an easy-to-use and a time-saving alternative for conventional method of going by own and handing over the trash to a recycling center, people tend to use this app rather than drifting to an improper method of waste disposal.
If proper awareness and convenient methods are available for people, they will not tend to act in such a way that creates pollution to the environment. So to create initiatives to protect the environment, we should consider that fact.