The statistics on humankind's rapidly increasing production, use, and disposal of single use plastics are shocking and depressing. Beyond the global ecological disaster posed by plastics dumped into oceans and landfills, plastics emit greenhouse gasses at each stage of their lifecycle exacerbating climate change.
PolyZero is a web-app created to help consumers estimate the single-use plastics they consume in a year plus the CO2 footprint emitted from those plastics. The goal of our app is to raise awareness and provide advice and tools for reducing your plastic footprint. Beyond that, we provide a simple mechanism to purchase CO2 off-sets in order to reduce the climate impact of the plastics that consumers are unable to immediately eliminate from their lives.
Read the facts about disposable plastics and see the PolyZero app in action at polyzero.earth.
The polyzero app includes a frontend built in React.js and leveraging Tailwind.css for presentation. Other required libraries include:
To run the frontend components locally, clone this repo, then run npm install from within the repo folder to install the above components.
Note: If you don't have npm installed, you'll need to do that first.
The polyzero backend was built using Google Firebase.
PolyZero is a passion project built by a group of volunteers. It's far from perfect and needs the involvement of others to survive. If you're interested in becoming a contributor, grab an open issue, fix it and submit a Pull Request. If you have something in mind that's not in the Issues list, please reach out to the team at contact@polyzero.org.
PolyZero is on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/polyzeroapp