The problem Clean Coast solves

1. No Effective Marine Waste Management System

Every day, thousands of tourists visit Indian beaches, but they are unable to dispose of the juice bottles, snack wrappers, and other plastic debris they produce in an efficient manner.
Most of the time, they litter plastic waste on the seashore. These plastic wastes end up in the sea, where they harm the entire marine ecosystem.

Oil spills frequently kill marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, seals, and sea otters. Oil can clog the blowholes of whales and dolphins, making it impossible for them to breathe properly and disrupting their ability to communicate. Oil coats the fur of otters and seals, leaving them vulnerable to hypothermia.
Even when marine mammals escape the immediate effects, an oil spill can contaminate their food supply. Marine mammals that eat fish or other foods exposed to an oil spill may be poisoned by the oil and die or experience other problems.

2. Damage to Marine Ecosystem

Turtles and other marine animals, mistake plastic as food. Since plastic is not digestible, it remains in their stomach and gives them the sensation of being full, so these marine animals die out of starvation.

If the current trend continues, then the weight of all the plastic in the world’s oceans will weigh more than all of the fish in the ocean

3. Decline in Tourism
   A beach littered with plastic waste does not present a favourable image to foreign tourists, and as a result, many of them avoid visiting Indian beaches.
   Seashores polluted with plastic waste give a bad impression to foreign tourists.
   India has many beautiful beaches, which provides a great opportunity in the tourism sector

Challenges we ran into

One of the major hurdle we faced was map integration , we intially used Mapbox api which we found difficult to implement and later switched to react-leaflet.