cleanSpot - a smartphone application to find your nearest recycling centre
Organisation or Company
Type of organisation or company
Country
Spain
City
Madrid
Language for original content
Key Area
Project elaborated in partnership
No
Scope
Submitted by
Marcos Martínez Robles
Ongoing
Yes
Type of funding
Marcos Martínez
Description
The idea behind the cleanSpot application - to be uploaded on smartphones and GPS - is to provide people with an easy way to search for recycling centres (called puntos limpios - clean spots in Spanish) and specialised recycling containers where they can simply go and drop off their non conventional urban waste for correct recycling.
The application provides a map with all recycling spots, which users can easily navigate to search for the nearest. Users can also take a picture of their waste to detect - via image recognition - the category it belongs to and calculate the amount of CO2 emissions saved when correctly recycling/reusing it.
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Identified challenge (s)
Main results
- Currently almost 65.000 recycling spots have been located throughout Spain
- The cleanSpot developers are planning to expand to other countries with localised versions of the same app.
- Developers are also assisting non-profit organisations in getting more benefits from their social projects (higher quantities of collected waste), since the app helps users to locate containers collecting specific types of waste.
