Last year, Poles generated an average of kg of municipal waste per person. Of the total Skillful waste management is a challenge for every region of the world: residents of major cities, as well as rural areas or areas visited primarily for tourism, where the effects of increasing garbage are observed on a daily basis. How to change this situation? The ubiquity of mobile devices and the technological capabilities at everyone's disposal open up an opportunity to effectively counter litter.
This is the basis of a nationwide environmental project that has been launched, with the new EcoHike app at its core. It allows smartphone users to mark locations where they find trash and label them accordingly. The locations so tagged are visible on a virtual map accessible from within the program and allow others who care about the environment, including activists and representatives of institutions, to respond.
EcoHike was created on the initiative of an engineer from the technology company GlobalLogic, who noticed a growing number of illegally dumped waste around him while hiking. He decided to use his knowledge and skills to design a solution to counteract environmental litter.
With the support of his colleagues and using technology provided by the organization, he created an application that can now make a difference in Poland. The new app is expected to become one of the core elements of a nationwide environmental project that will encourage eco-friendly activities. The initiative will integrate people who want to care about the environment and local communities in a joint cleanup of the places we live and visit.
The benefits of such cooperation can be seen from pilot actions using EcoHike. The meeting included cleaning up part of the Sulistrowice Pass, the area around the monumental pedunculate oak at the foot of Mount Sleza and the area around the Sulistrowice lagoon. For many years the community of Sulistrowice has been active in the field of ecological education and respect for nature.
