The Recycling Assistant feature within the Rubbish app provides users with detailed recycling guidance.

Rubbish AI will quickly quantify the food recovered from donors.

The importance of environmental data and Rubbish's AI Environmental Mapping capabilities.

Rubbish and NoTraceTrails have partnered up to conduct a groundbreaking litter and microplastics survey along the Pacific Crest Trail. The Rubbish app will be used to collect and analyze geolocated trash data to help companies, policymakers, and land managers implement effective measures to protect the environment, while empowering hikers and citizen scientists to join in on the litter survey using the Team feature in the app.

After helping Startup Grind host the world's first Zero Litter conference, we created a tip sheet to help all your events be litter-free.‍

Rubbish now enables municipalities to gain SWEEP Certification credits via litter audits and the implementation of IoT tech that removes litter from our urban environment.

A field report from the River District in Sacramento, California’s capital city.

A guest post on clustering litter collected during the Startup Grind 2020 event by Rubbish. We can use clustering to evaluate the placement of collection objects (i.e, trash cans, etc.), improve on the cleanup policies, and gain insights on the habits of people who throw trash on the ground!

Read on to see how San Francisco's SOMA West District has changed from 2019 to 2020.

Alex found Rubbish from our Earth Day Reddit AMA, and loved our iOS App and how we use data to track and clean litter. As someone who loves doing fun things with data and loves to help make a cleaner world, he created a data analytics dashboard to help others!

During quarantine, Pocket was looking for something productive to do. Using the Rubbish.love app, his goal was to categorize the type and amount of litter going into two San Diego river mouths for 7 weeks.

Rubbish has partnered with the SoMa West Community Benefit District to keep the community clean and drive traffic to businesses and artists who have suffered due to COVID-19!

On Earth Day, the Rubbish team did a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit. Emin, Felipe, Adam, and I (the team!) were excited to share our experience and talk trash.

Our goal was to make Startup Grind Global 2020 the first conference in the nation to audit their litter and quantify their litter footprint.

Adam drove cross country from New York City to San Francisco and did a rubbish run at each stop.

Residents have long been ready for a change to a healthier, cleaner, safer and more vibrant neighborhood. When residents and community members made their priorities heard, the SoMa West CBD took action.

Armed with trash bags and snazzy-looking smart trash grabbers, aka “ rubbish beams “, the rubbishers have picked up over 130,000 individual pieces of litter over the course of almost a year of regular street cleanings in San Francisco — collecting data all the while on what, where, and when.

The University of Pennsylvania is known for top-notch academics, excellent sports, and now, a tobacco-free campus thanks to their ongoing partnership with rubbish!

What is the impact of hundreds of entrepreneurs on the campus and neighborhood during Y Combinator Startup School? What did its litter footprint look like?

By relying on Firebase to store, process, and analyze an increasing amount of data, we feel confident that we can engage and empower individuals, communities, and governments to tackle extensive, seemingly unsolvable problems like litter.

This is our first post! We are fully committed to a healthier, cleaner neighborhood — and we want to share some highlights from the first month of our Polk Street Pilot.