Google - Ideas to Reality
Directed by Arturo Herrero and Juan Herrero.
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.