TrashBuddy by StudyBuddy

TrashBuddy is a project by the StudyBuddy Team.

The goal is to create a community-driven app that turns street cleaning into a game everyone wants to play.

We built an app that allows users to report the presence of litter and earn points for every report and cleaning action. This game integrates leaderboards and badges to encourage people to take action and contribute in making their city cleaner. Allowing them to organize cleanups to boost social interaction and engagement.

We used Flutter and OpenStreetMaps for the frontend, Express.js and MongoDB for backend and Database. Thanks to AI, the app can automatically detect if the waste reported belongs to some specific categories, such as cumbersome or dangerous waste, in order to notify authorities to address the problem. Moreover, AI can detect where there is a major buildup of waste, automatically creating time-limited events that users can join for bonus points and suggesting strategies to address the issue to the local authorities.