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Live Carbon Footprint Calculator
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About the Project
🌍 What is CarbonCalc?
CarbonCalc is a simple web application that helps users understand their daily carbon footprint. Users enter information about activities such as transportation, electricity usage, food habits, and waste. CarbonCalc estimates the amount of CO₂ generated and presents the results in an easy-to-understand format.
💡 Inspiration
Climate change is a global problem, but many people do not know how their everyday activities contribute to carbon emissions. We wanted to create a simple tool that makes carbon awareness easy and accessible to everyone.
⚙️ How It Works
- The user enters their daily activity details.
- CarbonCalc calculates estimated CO₂ emissions using predefined emission factors.
- The application displays the total carbon footprint.
- Emissions are broken down by different activities.
- The system provides simple suggestions to help users reduce their carbon footprint.
🌱 Key Features
- Daily carbon footprint calculation
- Transport emission estimation
- Electricity emission estimation
- Food and waste impact estimation
- Total CO₂ summary
- Activity-wise emission breakdown
- Personalized eco-friendly suggestions
- Simple and user-friendly interface
🛠️ How We Built It
CarbonCalc is designed as a lightweight web application using Python and Streamlit. The calculation logic uses predefined emission factors to estimate CO₂ emissions based on the information provided by the user.
📚 What We Learned
Through this project, we learned how everyday activities contribute to carbon emissions and how technology can be used to make environmental information easier to understand. We also gained experience in building a user-friendly application and converting real-world environmental data into useful insights.
🚧 Challenges
One of the main challenges was keeping the carbon calculations simple while still making the results useful to users. We also focused on designing an interface that is easy to understand for users without technical or environmental knowledge.
🌎 Our Goal
CarbonCalc aims to encourage people to become more aware of their environmental impact and take small, practical steps toward a more sustainable lifestyle.
Built With
- python
- streamlit
