RecycleAI

Inspiration

Many citizens think they are helping the environment by discarding everything into their recycling bin, but this can actually lead to more detrimental effects on the environment. We were inspired to provide a resource for people to easily classify their waste and be educated on proper waste disposal.

What it does

RecycleAI uses AI technologies to classify waste as recycle, compost, or trash.

How we built it

We built RecycleAI with Python's Tensorflow library.

Challenges we ran into

We had trouble finding large enough data sets to train our AI model.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are most proud of creating an AI model that plays an important role in helping regular citizens better dispose of their waste.

What we learned

While creating RecycleAI we learned that many items we initially thought were trash were actually recyclable items. This new knowledge empowers us to make active changes to how we currently dispose of our waste and be mindful of what we dispose.

What's next for RecycleAI

With more time, we would want to add more data to make our AI smarter and better classify waste. We would also like to add more interactive features to our web application to better educate our users. For example, including more media and stories of citizens who had made environmentally-friendly changes to their lifestyles.

Built With

• python
• streamlit
• tensorflow