Team Payback

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Main Challenge

People who are so interested in using plastic, that plastic is a threat to their life. In first world countries, they use different types of Waste or Plastic Management systems. But what about developing countries?

Getting rid of all this plastic additionally reasons issues for the planet. Just 16% of plastics are recycled — the rest goes to landfill for incineration or is just dumped.

Much of the plastic that doesn’t make it to the recycling plant ends up in our rivers and ocean. It additionally poses a hazard to the climate. Plastic products contain chemical additives. A number of these chemicals have been with 

health problems such as hormone-related cancers neurodevelopment disorders like ADHD ( attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and autism.

Yet publicity to plastic is increasing into new areas of the surroundings and meals chain as current plastic merchandise fragments into smaller particles and pay attention to poisonous chemical compounds These toxins have direct and documented influences on skin, eyes, and different sensory organs, the respiratory, nervous, and gastrointestinal systems, liver, and brain.

Once plastic reaches the surroundings in the structure of macro- or microplastics, it contaminates and accumulates in meal chains via agricultural soils, and terrestrial and aquatic meals chains.

Microplastics coming into the human physique by using direct exposures thru ingestion or inhalation can lead to an array of fitness impacts, such as inflammation, genotoxicity, and oxidative stress.

Systemic change is needed to stop the flow of plastic waste ending up in the environment.

Survey Data

We've also conducted multiple surveys in different areas and institutions to understand the user's behavior and their expectations. We've also generated many interesting data depending on these surveys. And these interesting data helped us a lot to design the whole supply chain and the application.

According to the survey, 90.09% of participants are confirmed interested in our project. And they all are interested to co-operate with us.

Almost 38.10% of participants consume at least 01 Plastic bottles a day. In some cases, some of them consume more than 2-3 plastics bottle a day.

Our Solution

Our idea is simple. We've designed a supply chain that starts from the Plastic Consumers to the Manufacturers through the Brokers and the Distributors. And the whole chain is operated just with a Mobile Application.

We will be collecting Plastic Wastage from the Consumers. After that, they will receive credit points through our Mobile Application based on the plastics that they've provided to the collector. In the same way, the Broker and the Distributors will receive the credit points. Depending on that, users can make his/her withdrawal directly in the Bank account or in the Mobile Banking account.

As we're maintaining a proper cycle. All the plastics are being collected properly without turning them into waste. Cause waste is not waste until we waste them.

In the Broker Stage, there might be some plastics that would not be recyclable. The broker will separate it and will send it to the Rural areas. Where unemployed housewives or women will participate to transform it into different types of crafts. Also, they can sell these crafts by using our platform. That's how we're also solving women's unemployment problem in developing countries. And making them self-employable.

Future Impact

That plastic has to go somewhere, and it’s regularly dumped carelessly on land or in rivers in growing countries, earlier than ending up in the ocean, the place it threatens marine existence, and so on. Here we have the different impacts of this solution.

• Preventing air pollution by way of lessening the quantity of new uncooked substances used.
• Saves energy.
• Reduces greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change.
• Reduces the quantity of waste that wishes to be recycled or, in growing countries, despatched to landfills/incinerators.
• Safer Environment for Wildlife.

On the other hand, our plan is also to work on women's unemployment problems. This will create sustainability for rural women to be self-employed.

Also, we have a lot more things to do. And we need your help to make it possible. Let's make it possible together.

Note: At the end of the day we're making the earth safe so that you don't need to move towards Mars with Mr. Elon Musk!

NASA -

• Data Set 01: Plastic, Plastic, Where is All Our Plastic?

Canadian Space Agency -

• Data Set 01: Climate or Weather? Climate Change or Global Warming?
• Data Set 02: Taking action on climate change.

Europian Space Agency -

• Data Set 01: Tracking marine plastic drift from space.
• Data Set 02: Keeping an eye on ocean plastic pollution…from space!

We’re a team of three youth enthusiasts. Two are Software Engineering students from Daffodil International University and the other one is a College Student from Viqarunnisa Noon College.

Almost all of us are working on real-time problem solving for a long time. Some of us even had several awards on it. Like GenU Youth Challenge.

NASA International Space App Challenge is a perfect platform for us where we can express our thoughts and also can push ourselves to deal with a new challenge. With that hope, we applied for the NASA International Space App Challenge 2022 which was hosted by BASIS in Bangladesh.

From the beginning, we were trying to find out a specific problem around us. After exploring a lot we decided to work on Climate Change. We’ve also conducted several surveys to understand the whole situation. Also discussed with experts to identify the possible solutions.

References -

• Reference 01: On the elastic-plastic decomposition of crustal deformation at the atomic scale.
• Reference 02: Plastic Production and Decomposition.
• Reference 03: How Long Does It Take for Plastic to Decompose?
• Reference 04: Can plastic decompose or biodegrade? How long does it take?
• Reference 05: The world's plastic pollution crisis explained.

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