E-Cycle

e-cycle

Inspiration

Americans represent 5% of the world’s population, but generates 30% of the world’s garbage. In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his or her body weight, which for an average adult would leave a legacy of 90,000 pounds of trash at the end of their lifetime.

Less than 2% of the total waste in the United States is recycled. Of these recyclables, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the entire commercial air fleet every three months, enough steel to reconstruct Manhattan, and enough wood to heat 5 million homes for 200 years. U.S. waste disposal costs exceed $100 billion annually.

What it does

Our app incentivizes users to increase their recycling efforts by offering potential earnings on the sale of both standard and raw recyclable materials

How we built it

We were are able to make this crossplatform application by using javascript, html, css, android studio, amazon web services , braintree, Here mapping, and we also made a last ditch effort to use SAP

Challenges we ran into

TIME. Need I say more

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a fully functional application that actually works in less than 24 hours and the result of that work is a product which we genuinely believe can help better the environment

What we learned

There is an incredible amount of potential in the applications we build at events like these that can help solve some of the most prevalent problems in this world