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Locations of Recycling bins
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Inspiration

In recent years, there has been an increase in the products bought by individuals in developed countries due to the advent of online shopping. This has been made more prevalent due the pandemic causing more people to purchase online goods. This has caused an increase in the number of impulse purchases leading to more items being discarded. Therefore causing the wastage of the population as a whole to increase. We have decided to come up with this website to allow users to be more environmentally friendly and donate their items to others when they no longer need them.

What it does

It aims to be a closed goods economy, whereby the more someone recycles and gets upvoted, the more points one will earn. Another way a user can earn points is through the goods economy, where users can buy and sell old used goods to one another that they might not need. This ensures that people continue using the application. As a way of incentivizing users to earn more points, points can be used for exchange of vouchers and discounts alike!

How we built it

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React
Firebase
Bootstrap
HTML
CSS
Node.js

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Challenges we ran into

Unfortunately, we did not have the entire 24 hours to do the hack due to our own personal commitments, which made it extremely hard to collaborate and complete all the features we wanted to.

We also did not plan ahead for our data and how the data is being managed, causing us to do many changes to the database.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to come up with an MVP that can be seen as a viable solution to combat waste and encourage recycling at the same time as well.

What we learned

We learned more about new technologies like bootstrap, and learned how to collaborate on code in a faster less organised manner (compared to daily/weekly sprints in a SWE company).