Help the environment by reducing waste that goes into landfill
What it does
Closes the gap in information for recycling. Any user can hold any item they want to recycle and be informed of how they should recycle it
How we built it
We used tensorflow.js a machine learning API to build an algorithm and then trained it on images to differentiate between "Recycle", "Compost", and "Trash"
Challenges we ran into
Originally, when we were trying to localhost the website, we ran into a lot of permissions issues. A lot of our other API's such as Node.JS were giving us trouble.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Working tensorflow algorithm
Beautiful website to compliment it all
What we learned
Overall better usage of HTML & CSS
API knowledge grew significantly
Learned about localhost such as XAAMP
What's next for EcoSorter
Given more time, we can continue expanding the ML algorithm. Our website is POC where we wanted to prove
We look forward to implement code that will let the algorithm detect the item's category without needing to press any buttons to make it memorize
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