The problem RecyMate solves

According to the statistics, India generates around 3.4 million tonnes of plastic waste per year and this is just the data of plastic waste. Only 30% of this waste is being recycled as of now.
All the remaining waste is directly dumped in landfills or is thrown on streets. A large amount of this waste is recyclable and the government alone cannot recycle this waste on its own.
So we have created a portal where users can schedule a pickup for their recyclables and be sure that their waste will be recycled properly. This website will also provide users with options to sign up as a volunteer to contribute to the cleaning drives to save nature. All the information about the cleaning drives will be provided to the users on our platform itself.
It is a one stop platform for all the nature loving people who want to contribute to the nature but are not aware of the opportunities about how to and also for those people who want to dispose off the recyclables in their household without much hastle with the local vendors.

Challenges we ran into

The first problem we encountered was the user retention rate which we solved by introducing point system.
This is a very vast project if we really get into it, so another problem that came to surface was how to manage to do it in such a small time, we tried our best with team coordination and all the members did their best in contributing to the project.
Our goal was to created a website so that it will be easy for the users to contribute their utmost to the nature and for that, we had to add multiple features and had to brainstorm for a long time.
There were many other problems that we ran into at multiple levels but we tried our best to tackle them with team work and coordination.