This app makes it fun to pick up litter | Jeff Kirschner
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The earth is a big place to keep clean. With Litterati -- an app for users to identify, collect and geotag the world's litter -- TED Resident Jeff Kirschner has created a community that's crowdsource-cleaning the planet. After tracking trash in more than 100 countries, Kirschner hopes to use the data he's collected to work with brands and organizations to stop litter before it reaches the ground.
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I can see teachers and schools making good use of this, and National Parks...AWESOME !!
finally this is why i subscribe to TED
maxybaer123 a guy talking about picking up litter?
Same here, I just re-subscribed. There was a time 2008, people I spoke to hadn't heard of TED talks
Exactly. Perfect solutions lies in simplest things :).
+The Happipotamus yes
My RUclips channel is all about going to beautiful places and picking up litter with my dogs! It is a very small channel but it has already inspired a dozen or so people to pick up litter on their dog walks! I just downloaded the app. :D
Interesting project, just sad that the app is only available for Ios and not for android or windowsphone!
Fabian Ulrich how idiotic! I wanted to download it.
Fabian Ulrich it says on the website coming soon and you can get an email alert when it does
That's what you get for using Android! :P And who uses Windows phones??
I actually just spent the entire video's length looking for the app on the google play store. I hope this reaches its way to Android, Windows store, and any other app platform.
Let's build an app for 10+% rather than 70+%!
Some app developpers just boggle my mind.
That a good example for how the data and knowledge can lead to the understanding that would not have been obvious at first.
When you see somebody throwing trash onto the ground all the time, then you know that person is going to do bad things in personal relationships too.
Taiwan and Japan do litter less. It's in their culture to carry a small plastic bag, so that you can use it for trash, if you need to.
this guy saw the pokemon go craze and was like.. ok that's cool.. but what if people caught LITTER instead! gotta catch em all!
Great idea, you got my respect, sir.
I go on hour long walks with my grabber stick and a few bags mostly at night (night because I do not need the thumbs up or graduate) I have autism and although I appreciate your support I do it for one when I walk the that place again I see mostly clean= happy two exercise =happy three it is a constructive way to stem. I have never seen a litter bug but have seen humans discard there litter without care and it doesn't upset me or make me think there bad just slightly thoughtless. I do not report it to anyone. I see it I pick it up my mother always told us as kids leave it better then you found it. keep your money keep your applause don't expect someone to fix the world for you.find enjoyment in making your world better.this has been your autism awareness moment. PEACE...
I do the same when I run also I was thinking of doing something with a grabber but only a little more...... Modern. If it wasn't to invasive and not stick out like a sore thumb, I think more people would bring one along for the jog. Might even make a charity event. Kinda like marathon runners through skid row holding grabbers. All they need is the trashcans along the course.
Beautiful Idea, time to implement it worldwide! Imagine a worldwide competition between different countries on which city picks up the most litter!
more of these kind of ted talks please
finally something more technical 😁
Many of us have a vision however the hardest part is amassing a following that takes part in your vision. Very few people would take part in something like picking up trash without a reward, I still find it somewhat lucky he was able to amass the following he did in the initial stages of his project.
A point to keep in mind is that much of it still goes to landfills. Reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order of importance
How can we also teach all people including adults not to litter in the first place? Thank you for the inspiration and your commitment to the future of the planet.
Saw Jeff at school’s assembly today. So sorry for your loss.. ;(
I hike daily, i always take a backpack with me and i pick up all the trash on my way. I always come back home with a full backpack, always..every day. Its just nuts how much trash people throw in the woods. I have special trashbags at home, got it from our gouvernement. Cans and small bottles go in a pmd bag for recycling. Glass i throw in a collector here in my street. All the rest goes in the special bags. When they are full i send a message to the townhall, place the bags outside my door and they get picked up. Everytime i pick up a piece of litter im happy. Im like..your days of polluting this place are over, in the bag u go!!! 😁 So come on people, lets do this!! Pick up trash and help our earth become clean again!!!
Educating our little ones surely bring big impact in our world. This is awesome and brilliant!
I had the pleasure of Driving Jeff on his way to SFO (Lyft Driver). We touched on a lot of different topics. The one that stuck with me most was the Litterati App. Such a great idea! I downloaded the App as soon as he vacated my vehicle and I can't wait to use it. thanks ,Jeff!!!
I pick up litter when I walk my dog. There really are a lot of cigarette butts. When the street is clean, people are less likely to litter, but if it's already a pig sty, they might figure that no one cares, so it's easier to litter. Mostly I just like to create beauty wherever I can.
How about parents teaching their kids not to litter? None of my family ever does so why should we be penalised financially for selfish people who litter without thinking? Otherwise, great plan to teach.
The packaging you get from a fast food drive thru is ridiculous. I went to Chick-fil-A and threw away more ounces in napkins, plastic silverware, the paper bag and cardboard container for the sandwich than the sandwich weighed itself.
Picking up litter used to be easy. You just bent over picked it up and put it in the bin.
Now i have to pick up the litter, fumble out my phone, drop the litter, pick it up, drop my phone, drop the litter again, take the picture, upload it, walk off forgetting to put the litter in the bin.
what
It just seems like a lot more hassle than just picking up litter. I imagine people will get the app so they can bring it up in conversations and act like they're saving the planet, then only use it 3 times before getting bored.
Pasty Tie You're meant to photograph it where it is then pick it up as normal. if you don't want to take the photo and actually bother picking up litter then great, but sadly most people need some encouragement, myself included!
***** Fair enough
Just seems like you'll be spending more time using the app than picking up litter
Now this is a TED Talk!
If picking up litter is fun then litterers are the actual ones spreading the joy!
(also I picked up trash and recyclables from a national park today. :P )
I'm from India I'm not able to find the app, maybe it's not out here yet, waiting.
It's only available on phone right now. You can go to their web page and susbcribe to know when it will be released for android.
Oh yeah, that could be it. Thanks man!
Yeah same here. I was really looking forward to use it but it's not out on Android yet.
he doesn't have a clue if people in india start taking it seriously, his servers will be jammed and databases full :P
Just becase you don't have an app doesn't mean you can't pick up litter. At the end if you do want to document it spread it out on a tarp and take pictures.
This is brilliant.
This was my idea exactly 1 month ago. My wife picks up litter every time she sees it. Now she can take pictures of them... I was so busy doing school projects, never had a chance to implement this app... Well hopefully I'll be there next ;)
good job
Interesting idea - but I'm still not sure why it makes people pick up more litter though? Just seems to make it even more of a hassle - get your phone out, start the app, take a photo, tag it, etc. Easily a couple of minutes spent per piece of litter, while just picking the litter up only takes a second or two. Is the incentive here that you get to show what a good person you are on Instagram?
OMG! Let's makes this about money? About brands? Really... You need an App to be civil? Go to Japan and you rarelly see liter. You know why? EDUCATION. Everyone knows that you have to take care of where you live. Kids even CLEAN THE SCHOOL from a young age. The fact that someone thinks that we are better if we have an App for this(?)... It is just sad.
LITTERally the best video on ted
The best way to fix litter, every time you see litter and you're with people you know, tell them how stupid, sloppy, idiotic the people littering are. Tell all the smokers you know when they light up before the cigarette butt is littered that you want to see their personal cigarette disposal. Make it socially unacceptable, too many people litter and no-one says anything.
i call em a pig to their face
Dammit Germany. So bloody clean
If posting photos of litter to display a sense of duty is bringing the encouragement required to have a cleaner planet, then great! :D
Perhaps gamification of the process would serve well where so many methods to induce moral sense have failed.
who else is getting this app
...one peace at the time. Thank you.
*crowd goes freaking wild*
Just shows what impact one person can have...that he started keeping track through Instagram & the rest is history ...
I have a question ,geotag can be fake easily .......
1. drop litter
2. take photo
3. forget litter
4. ????
5. PROFIT!!!
Love helping the environment. Everyone should make a goal to clean up at least 5 pieces of trash a day, and that would be 1,825 pieces a year per person!
the guy in the front jumping to a standing ovation lol. easy bud
I don't see the fun in it yet, but still a great idea.
It's like geocaching but weirder.
LITTER PICKER SIMULATOR?!!
This might be the perfect place to get some feedback on my position for picking up litter. Picking up another person's trash doesn't stop that person from continuing to litter. I will pick up litter and the trashy human will go on to repeat the offense. The thought of being in this endless cycle of picking up someone else's trash who is going to replace it with more trash, gives me a feeling of fatigue on the matter before I even start. This app is great, but at the same time disappointing in revealing how much trash isn't making it into the trash bin (and I know not all rebellious litter was intentionally discarded by a human). I want to hear about an innovative tactic for curbing the act of littering in the first place - not a method of recruiting the better people to pick up after the hopeless slobs. Responses, please...?
Point Particle I agree in some points. But we have to start somewhere. Seeing people photograph litter before throwing it away is strange and will raise questions, thus raising awareness. Also, a lot of the time people hesitate to throw something on the ground when it's otherwise clean. An app is not as effective as a penalty, but it will change something.
I would bother picking up the crap thrown on the street on my way to and from the station but THERE'S NO BINS
I really hate going to this point, but after watching so much Ted and reading a comment in the last video from TED I watched, it really does seem true that most male presenters talk about some issue that's engineering or scientific or whatnot to help the world and so many of the women presenters are about "sexism" and "MAH GENDER" and such.. I mean, I love the ones that are actually about science, but I wish there were more :( pity that...
Basically, I want to see women presenting MORE videos of how to engineer or build or postulate something to better the world as a whole, not one gender, race, religion, etc.
The irony of this comment is that you're doing the same as those women are.
for a feminist, this is the result of sexism
and not being able to make a ted talk about that would also be sexist
I've seen many women talking about social problems (sexism excluded) and these issues are important too
The God Emperor It's literally up to them to get up there and do it. TED isn't going to deliberately scavenge for a female engineer who may have nothing important to say just to prove a point. These ideals will just have to take a backseat to reality and quality.
I suggest Bonnie Bassler for starters :)
Thank you.
That sound in the end
Now this is good old ted
I have a very small RUclips channel where I take my dogs to beautiful places to pick up litter. I would love to partner with something like this.
Litterati not available on Google Play :-(
it is not enouth have a physical garbage- and this project help us create more digital garbage for social network
was that a wolf howling in the audience?
No Google Play Store?
he doesn't have a clue if people in india start taking it seriously, his servers will be jammed and databases full :P
Those two guys who stood up at the end to applause were perhaps a little too enthusiastic.
*Deliberately drops garbage in beautiful places*
Wow such a brilliant idea. This is so inspiring.
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the problem isn't people littering, its the fact that these plastic things were made in the first place. even if you throw the litter in the bin its just gonna keep piling up in tge garbage dumps till it covers the whole world.
This was awesome, great idea!
Mr Jeff Kirchner what about android ...the app is only available on Apple store
WOW! Great video!
App not in google playstore?
It's not available for android yet, but in their website you can subscribe to get a notification when it's ready.
I really hope they'll release it soon :).
Just never had the opportunity to publish my idea
can't get litterati in austria, can i?
brilliant idea!
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This s**t heds yes it starts like this
It does not fix the issue putting tax on things, they need to use cctv and biometrics.
Love it, I also like the video game for surfers who pick up trash while surfing in the game - I love the solutions - let's clean up the world.
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Loved the idea! Pretty empowering! I'm just wondering if the app aspect of it (taking a pic, posting, commenting, storing data...) doesn't create at least as much, maybe more invisible (because virtual) pollution than the piece of garbage you removed?
You stole my idea dawgg I came up with this in 2016!!
Is that a map without New Zealand on it in 2017....?
I love this!
The power of data.
New years resolution: 100 pick-ups next year
How about not littering and fining those who litter? It's not cleaning up that will make the world much cleaner, it's not leaving trash a around. Picking trash after others will never be fun, it should not be fun.
However, this app has it's practical use, just as the man said. collecting statistics, creating policies, checking how these work - very useful.
Is the app available on google play store ??
Shilpam Sinha not yet
DOWNLOADING... INSTALLED
Honestly this idea is good for collecting data about trash. what trash is where. but when it comes about cleaning up I'm not sure how successful it is coz when I would not bother taking out my phone taking a pic turn on GPRS just for clearing a piece of plastic.
absolutely Hanoi is so polluted, I think that app will be useful, I hope you will be successful
Name off app?
Is the app on android? I can't find it on google play?
Astrobadgr same
Astrobadgr www.litterati.org/#download
whats the app name?
Have fun with that.
I need that app
You are only going after the symptom. Find a way to go after the inconsiderate dbags that littered in the first place. Like give people a reward if they catch people (on camera) red handed while they litter in public. It won't work at a business, they are in love with money so they wouldn't want to risk ticking off a customer that is also littering.
Well, for some, it is "dbag' attitude to go off your way to record someone doing a finable thing. The school x straws example of building self-awareness, which is better than vigilant hunts.
Think of how low price fines make people feel less guilty. After all, they can pay the small fee and drive drunk and litter...
I didn't say anything about making it a "low price fine".
Yeah it would be bad for some, the dbags doing the littering.
Snitching is not the most community positive act. It is viewed as a treacherous attitude in some memes.
Overall, your reward would probably come from non abiding citizens fines, right? There is already a fine, (
"Snitching is not the most community positive act"
The goal is to punish bad people in the community so that you will have little to no litter. I don't care how some communities feel about snitching, we are not talking about someone trying to make a living selling drugs, just people too pathetic to put their trash in the right place.
"There is already a fine, (
How does a city get sued by a company? Is America really that far into plutocracy?
interesting project :)
How many needles did he find in San Francisco?
I found 2 this week....here in small town USA.
At the end wolf of wall-street approves by hauling
Awesome :)
"I spend most of my time in the hospital because I have cancer. The nurses let me have as many lollipops as I want. Lollipops made having cancer delicious." That's kind of what the title is.
Jesse Spika well, if I had to decide between cancer with or without lollipops, I might as well get them sweet) lollipops
What's the name of the App?
Music Keeps Alive litterati
its not on google play btw
1. How do you know that they actually threw the litter to the trash bin?
2. Is there a reward for picking up enough litter? What's the incentive?
3. I could literally throw stuff on the ground and take pictures all day long.
MrSnowgum2 I'd argue it doesn't matter. The data that enables us to make changes in the production of litter alone is a powerful enough tool to cut down on the litter were productions enough where we'd be able to better keep up with litter cleanup.
Precisely.
Awesome idea, I got excited just to find out that it's just for iPhone. You got to kidding me, it's 2017 guys wtf
This is genius
This was my idea. He stole it.
Good idea on first view, but why not teach people not to throw trash on the street? Also kind of problematic because of infected needles, bacteria and other things you don't want to touch. This is the type of stuff you pay taxes for.
what's the name of the App?
Amrit Buxani litterati. It's only out for Apple though. Android coming soon (check the website).