The problem The Sustainable Store solves

Currently there is no actual e-commerce structure to get e-waste from people to get it recycled on a large scale. The Sustainable store is an online platform where the users can earn points by giving out their E-waste to our store officials. The points earned can be used to buy recycled products from our website which is made from e-waste collected from our users. We have also used an ML model to classify 9 different waste materials which will help to raise awareness of waste recycling.
The user has to upload a picture and our ML model will classify the waste. If the waste is classified as E-waste, a request for E-waste pick up will be generated and waste can be collected from user’s house.The user earns points based on the type and amount of E-waste collected. After E-waste collection the users can use the earned points to shop for recycled products made from e-waste from our Sustainable store.
Real World Applications :

1. Will help in collection of Digital waste from people.
2. A sustainable E- Commerce platform which will help in recycling digital waste.
3. Mode of employment for local workers and craftsmen. We can hire them to make hand made products made out of E-waste.
4. Constant collection and recycling of digital waste will help us fight the climate crisis on a bigger scale.

Challenges we ran into

1. To compose and find dataset for our deep learning/ML model and then debugging it.
2. Large size of dataset and dealing with images made it difficult to train the deep learning/ML model.
3. To integrate the ML model with nodejs. Hence, we deployed the model using flask and then using 2 servers.
4. Problem in integrating the backend with frontend using localhost. Therefore, used ngrok to retrieve the data.