Young Professionals 14–19 Honorary Mention
Augmented Reality App
Whether it’s the plastic bag on the side of the road or the aluminum can in the field: in our environment today, there is trash everywhere we look. Only very few people take the trouble to pick up the trash. The Waste-Bin-GO app is aimed at this problem and is wholly devoted to people working together to create a more sustainable future. The goal of our project is to convince as many people as possible to go out and pick up trash in order to make a mutual contribution to solving the trash problem.
Users of Waste-Bin-GO can mark on a map where they find trash. These markers are stored on a server and can thus be seen by everyone. Everyone can have the route to marked trash displayed for them with the help of augmented reality. This playful kind of visualization ensures a certain “fun factor” in the search for trash. You receive one point for every piece of trash you pick up. In this way, avid collectors can compare their diligence and motivate each other. The innovative idea of making trash collection so accessible to people and using the latest technology to make it as simple and fun as possible is what makes our app so unique.
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With the support of Matthias Grimmer
