Lixo Marinho

The seaside is a relaxing place to visit, and we want to keep it that way. However, there's a lot of littering taking place, and keeping the beaches clean is up to volunteers. As such, a team of researchers from the University of Coimbra asked us to help them make a simple application with which beach cleaning volunteers could track their garbage collection sessions, incentivizing people to do this task, and gathering relevant statistics for future studies. At the same time, there is the need to raise awareness to just how much trash there is, which this app should also help with.

For this project, our team used Elixir and Phoenix technology to do the Backend development. The web application was built using ReactJS and the Android app uses Kotlin.

For the backend, we decided to structure it completely on top of AWS services since they are the most useful for dynamic and growing projects. This services were also accompanied by a web application and a mobile application on the Google Play Store.

The final result is a simple, beautiful and user-centered application, which is easy to use by anyone of any age. The app has a minimalistic look, and allows you to start tracking your trash collection sessions with just a couple of clicks.