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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?