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SPEAKER 1: 8 million
tons of plastic per year
being dumped into our ocean.
SPEAKER 2: If we eat
fish, we may be eating
some plastic pieces as well.
SPEAKER 3: At the time, it's
urgent, in terms of concrete
steps the government
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OLIVER POUILLON: The solution
to the ocean-plastic problem
is on land.
So you can spend all this
time cleaning up the ocean.
It's never going to end.
What's going to
make it end is, how
do we change how we do things?
How do we deal with our
waste in a different way?
SPEAKER 4: [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
OLIVER POUILLON: There are over
a million independent waste
workers across Indonesia.
It's a really hard job,
and they're doing it
with such limited resources.
Half the island has
no waste collection.
If your waste isn't
collected, people
start burning their
garbage or throwing it
in the canal or river.
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So the whole digital revolution
has kind of completely
missed the waste sector.
Today, almost everyone
has a smartphone,
which means we can now
address this problem in ways
we couldn't imagine
just five years ago.
We started doing these training
with high-school students,
building data sets of the
actual things in the waste,
to be able to quickly
assess, if you're
going to one of these
waste facilities,
to see what's there,
what the value is.
LEONARD PAPILAYA: We
collected all the images,
and then we transferred it
to the Google Cloud Platform.
From there, we can
separate it in a data set,
and we train until
we have a good model.
OLIVER POUILLON: We first heard
about the Google AI Impact
Challenge through social media.
If we want to be a
trash-tech company,
we're going to probably use AI--
discovering AutoML
we'll get in TensorFlow.
The big benefit to
working with google.org
has been its connection
with mentors.
The last month and a half,
we've done more tech development
than we've ever done before.
With this app, the
waste collectors
will have a map of
their customers,
so we'll know where
the customers are
and when they need to collect.
And they'll be able to receive
payments for their service
from their customers,
and then they'll
also be able to track
what they've collected,
and what in the
waste is recycled,
and know what value
they'll get out of it.
We're helping the collectors
work better, do better,
be more productive.
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If you want to
solve this problem,
you've got to support
the people that
are dealing with it every
day, day in and day out.
Waste is a man-made concept.
There is no waste in nature.
As we explain to people on
what's actually going on,
this is how we can
solve it, I think
we'll get a lot of support.
This is our chance to get
the waste collected, sorted,
recycled, and out of
our rivers and oceans.
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