There are more than 1 million independent waste workers in Indonesia, yet only about 50% waste gets collected, the rest ends up burned or sent down the river and eventually into the ocean.
Olivier Pouillon, and the team at Gringgo (Green-go) Trash Tech have created an AI-powered app, that equips waste workers with a map of customers, ability to communicate and take payment, and waste type and recycle value detection/
Gringgo Trash Tech is a grantee of Google.org’s AI Impact Challenge and received funding as well as mentorship from AI experts to help accelerate their growth to address the problem faster.
Support Gringgo Trash Tech’s efforts at https://www.gringgo.co
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