Image Recognition Model to detect plastics, glass, paper, rubbish, metal and cardboard. This is used to detect these pollution in the ocean to allow the eradication of these materials, helping marine life, fishermen, tourism and making the world resilient to climate change.

Reducing the plastics surrounding islands one step at a time

Digital Ocean is used as a server to install the necessary requirements, and train the image recognition model. A raspberry pi, mounted with a camera, wrapped in a buoy, then calls on that server and is used to detect ocean pollution and push the location of that pollution to the Anti Plasti app via Firebase. This will notify the government and …