Trash Talk

Inspiration

My inspiration for the project rooted back from a few years. As someone who moved from America to New Delhi, India a big change I experienced was the difference in cleanliness between the countries. In India there was trash just about everywhere I went in the country. Through multiple vacations, car rides, walks, and more I was constantly seeing trash. It was so bad that people gave up on cleaning it, and those who tried were overpowered by the people who made it even dirtier. Since then I had been wanting to do something to help with pollution and trash around the world and I thought this was the perfect opportunity for me to start this initiative and hopefully carry it into a full project that truly is used around the world.

What it does

Trash talk is a initiative that leads people from QR codes placed around trash cans and communities around the world to the Trash Talk website. This website will greet and introduce users to the project initiative, then show them all of the aspects and statistics of trash and pollution in their community, and their causes. Furthermore, the website will show them solutions to the problems their community has and what they can do personally to help. Once users make it this far, they will be shown different already existing forums and a chance to create community forums to spread these ideas with other people, and explore different places and their “Trash Talk”. All of the info and branches on the site is powered by AI tools encrypted into making the site resourceful and unlimited in the range of environmental data needed for users.

How we built it

I personally built this project by first brainstorming the project and how to structure it, then creating my presentation and organizing my ideas and data into a realistic manner that was presentable, then creating and customizing a website to resemble a base prototype model of the website for Trash Talk.

Challenges we ran into

A challenge that I ran into was brainstorming how I could make this project be available throughout the world . After lots of thinking I concluded that I would use translation powered by AI to make my site available in languages that are seen around the world so anyone can understand it, and then start my outside influence outside of America by asking friends I know in India to place some of my QR codes and signs.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I personally am really proud of just the idea of the project as a whole. After months of thinking I created a prototype and base idea of Trash Talk which I utilized through skills I personally have and created something I think I can help lots of people with. Maybe not directly, but I think that in the end I can definitely help the world be a cleaner place which I like since I thought of how to do it alone, and truly stuck to it and worked hard to try and make it happen.

What we learned

I learned a lot about AI and how to implement it. After watching lots of youtube videos I learned how to incorporate AI into a coded website, which I didn't do yet for the prototype but can now do in the future for this. This took a lot of time and different aspects of learning but overall I got it down and also learned how I can create a chatbot and implement it in my site too in addition which can truly make the site much better and resourceful I think.

What's next for Trash Talk

For me personally, I want Trash Talk to go on past this hackathon. I loved getting the platform to share and really think about it in this hackathon and want to continue with this passion project even after. I want to actually make a AI powered website for my initiative and pursue my QR lead project starting in my community and where I used to live in India, hopefully growing from there. I just want to make an impact with this cause and see it do well since I really worked hard on it and am going to put a lot more time in it future come.

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• branching
• website
• wix