Garbage Educator

Inspiration

We live in today's world where we are facing environmental issues caused by man kinds act. One such issue is waste generation which is affecting planet Earth & human health equally. As society has become more aware of the impact of waste on the planet, the need to properly manage and dispose of garbage🗑️ has become increasingly important, especially in developing countries which lack the action. To prevent pollution & protect natural resources we need to include reducing, recycling, and properly disposing of waste to address the problem of overflowing landfills. Garbage Educator tries to address this by educating people through a simple game. This is can be used by anyone but it's the best way to teach children at a young age to make habit of it.

What it does

Garbage Educator helps you to learn waste segregation.

1. You launch the app & select the desired location of the world.
2. App will show different places in that location(consider them as different game levels) to play the game.
3. Once selected a particular place, it will show dustbins as per waste separation on the screen. So background(actual location) will keep changing at each level as you advance to next level.
4. On play button click, you will see objects on the screen, you have to select the correct dustbin to dispose those objects(garbage).
5. If the correct dustbin is selected, you get points on points table.
6. If an incorrect dustbin is selected, you get information about waste (& may be HINT button to know which is the correct dustbin for disposable. )
7. As you advance the level, time limit to select dustbin will reduce to make it more interesting to play like a game.
   

How we built it

Use Unity to make more interactive game out of it or to make POC use android app with ARCore Geo-spatial API with map. Idea covers following

1. Concept is new
2. Scalable as per needs - Idea integration into Google Map
3. Can be used by any part of world & by any age group.
4. Its knowledgeable, game element makes it interesting to try out multiple times. It can be taken to next level by having multiplayer experience.

Challenges we ran into

Newbie to unity app development & ARCore framework, so its bit tough to start on Unity development :(

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Its a small idea that has good potential to contribute in big way if we educate people especially in their childhood to inculcate garbage separation & in turn all other such possible majors to protect the planet Earth.

What we learned

Learnt basics of Unity & google's Arcore Geo-spatial framework to develop AR application.

What's next for Garbage Educator

1. Scalable by replacing dustbin with plastic vending machine(which takes garbage for recycling ) & adding location marker on google map for people to locate similar to what we have for recycling centers.
2. Garbage Educator mini-launcher as part of Google map, - people traveling to new places/countries can use to explore game & same time locate collection points. These are same selection places that are shown to user on app, this might familiarize them to know garbage collection points, at least in their localities :)
3. For social cause & to scale this efforts, Google map can tie-up with local municipal corporations to add designated marker on map & encourage people to use google map to locate nearby dustbins based on location instead of people litter on roads.
4. Game can introduce multiplayer experience where individuals compete online to score highest.

Built With

• android
• arcore