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May 4, 2023
Rubbish x NoTraceTrails: A 2,650-Mile Hike & The World's Largest Litter and Microplastic Survey
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.
Community
December 10, 2021
Rubbish Teams up With Sweep to Create the Future of Sustainable Solid Waste Management
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.
Data
October 28, 2021
How Do You Measure a Neighborhood’s Progress?
A field report from the River District in Sacramento, California’s capital city.
Data Science x Community
Rubbish works with community organizations, activists and educators to use litter data to understand the environment in a better way. See our studies below, and email us to join Rubbish Labs
Rubbish Labs
October 2, 2020
Where is the litter in SoMa West, San Francisco?
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!
Rubbish Labs
September 19, 2020
Rubbish Litter Ocean Research Project
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.
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Community
May 4, 2023
Rubbish x NoTraceTrails: A 2,650-Mile Hike & The World's Largest Litter and Microplastic Survey
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.
Community
January 14, 2022
Tips to Hosting a Litter-Free Event
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.
Community
December 10, 2021
Rubbish Teams up With Sweep to Create the Future of Sustainable Solid Waste Management
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.
Data
October 28, 2021
How Do You Measure a Neighborhood’s Progress?
A field report from the River District in Sacramento, California’s capital city.
Data
April 14, 2021
Clustering litter to collection objects
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!
Data
March 29, 2021
Litter Audits Show That SOMA West Residents are Enjoying a Cleaner and Healthier Neighborhood in 2020.
Read on to see how San Francisco's SOMA West District has changed from 2019 to 2020.
Rubbish Labs
October 2, 2020
Where is the litter in SoMa West, San Francisco?
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!
Rubbish Labs
September 19, 2020
Rubbish Litter Ocean Research Project
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.
Community
September 16, 2020
Rubbish Launches Contactless Reporting Platform in SoMa West
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!
Community
May 1, 2020
Talking Trash: A Reddit AMA with Rubbish
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.
Data
April 8, 2020
The First Conference to Audit Its Litter
Our goal was to make Startup Grind Global 2020 the first conference in the nation to audit their litter and quantify their litter footprint.
Data
November 21, 2019
Cross Country Detrashing
Adam drove cross country from New York City to San Francisco and did a rubbish run at each stop.
Community
August 28, 2019
The Largest Community-Led Audit Just Happened in SoMa, San Francisco
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.
Data
August 22, 2019
130,000 Reasons Why Data Science Can Clean Up San Francisco
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.
Community
August 14, 2019
Penn/Rubbish Partnership Kicks Off on Earth Day!
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!
Data
June 2, 2019
An Entrepreneurs' Footprints
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?
Data
November 27, 2018
How Firebase helps Rubbish clean up San Francisco
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.
Data
September 19, 2018
First month of Rubbish on Polk Street (20% reduction in avg. 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.