Awards & Nominations

Recicla Urbann has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

Urban recycling is a platform with the objective of engaging people in the separation of garbage

Summary

Recicle Urban, is a platform to connect cooperatives and associations of recyclable materials collectors to help condominiums and companies generating electronic waste to make the separation of garbage, as well as proper disposal, using a portal to obtain guidance on recycling, location of collection points and cooperatives and associations in the state of São Paulo.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have developed a platform for condominiums and companies that generate electronic waste, with the purpose of providing guidance on waste separation and environmental education.

Each registered person will be highlighted on the page by means of a hanking, as shown in the publications and clicks for reading, as well as the correct disposal of waste.

There is gain of points, which makes the company or condominium highlight for the concern with the environment. Besides, they will have access to the mapping of selective collection points and connection with cooperatives and associations of recycled materials registered for the correct disposal.

We have identified the importance of creating this solution due to the gathering of research information:


  • 40% of all garbage produced in Brazil ends up dumped in inadequate places, "This has an impact on the health of 76 million Brazilians".
  • Brazil loses $ 14 billion per year with the lack of adequate garbage recycling.
  • There are 12 million tons of solid residues that, instead of generating money and employment, ended up being discarded in the environment.
  • Surveys by the World Bank and the United Nations (UN), which foresee a 350% increase in solid urban waste by 2050 if there is no change in current standards

We want to change the statistics in order to improve the environment and we seek the following results:

1. Support to cooperatives and associations of recyclable materials collectors;

2. Valorization of the work of collectors of recyclable materials;

3. Encouraging the habit of disposing of garbage in appropriate places;

4. Reduction of diseases and pollution.

5. Saving on waste tax

Come with us: Think green, reduce consumption, be aware. Urban Recycle

Talis Maurício; Forster, Paula. Brasil deixa de ganhar R$ 14 bilhões com reciclagem de lixo.2020. Disponível em: <https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/2020/08/04/brasil-deixa-de-ganhar-r-14-bilhoes-com-reciclagem-de-lixo>. Acesso em: 03. out.2020.

How We Developed This Project

We feel empathy for identifying that the problem of waste is daily in our routine, many people do not separate the waste and consumerism further increases the negative impact on the environment.

The Backend was developed in Java, using the Spring Framework, for database integration we use Spring Data JPA, the databases that were used H2 Database (development environment) and Postgre SQL (in production), for application documentation Swagger was used (through the Spring Fox dependency), the documentation of the endpoints and details about the data used in each request can be found at: https://reciclaurban.herokuapp.com/swagger-ui.html, the application was made available in the cloud through the Heroku platform (application is avaliable in reciclaurban.herokuapp.com/)

The application uses the Apache Tomcat server by default and in development environment Spring Dev Tools was also used, the dependency manager chosen was Apache Maven.

The frontend was develop in Wix platform, here we see content about recycle and informations about our company. With our API it is possible to carry out all the necessary CRUD operations within our platform, it is possible to create, list, update and delete cooperatives, residences and companies on the platform in addition to being able to create, read, update and delete tasks that are worth points (referring to appropriate disposal) that are attributed to these companies and residences.

We conquered the development of a solution to reduce waste through recycling, the problems were the reduced time and the challenges of working in group

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

we plan to use the EONET API (https://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/) to visualize climate changes that can be caused by inappropriate waste disposal, such as floods and landslides

Project Demo

Video demo: https://youtu.be/gyE5z00uJ5M

Portal: https://reciclaurban.wixsite.com/website

Backend: https://reciclaurban.herokuapp.com/swagger-ui.html

Data & Resources

we plan to use the EONET API (https://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/) to visualize climate changes that can be caused by inappropriate waste disposal, such as floods and landslides

Tags
#recycle, #sustainability, #environmental education,#future generations,# health,#connection, #urban, #city, #
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.