Each of the winning projects of the Build For Good Environment hackathon will get funding of up to $100,000
Coastal Clear, one of five winning teams at the hackathon. They have been working on an app to better coordinate the cleanup of beaches.
He said he hopes for the team to make the app viable during the accelerator phase, which will be from June 29 to Aug 17. The Coastal Clear app aims to help coordinate cleanups of the coastline by giving each area a score derived from data points from the environment agencies and input from volunteers about when the area was last cleaned.
Ms Krithika said: “Now we’re focusing on volunteer organisations, but we also want to be community-facing later, for people to use the app to join the cleanups. We also want to partner with organisations like the National Environment Agency.”Dr Elton Tay, 45, a member of the four-person team, said they found that on average, more than $40,000 worth of medication is thrown away by each hospital every year.
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