WENLIFE| Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

WENLIFE: WITH THE ENVIRONMENT FOR LIFE

Summary

The project consists of an integrated digital platform, in real time, exploring the relationship between the production of solid waste (domestic, industrial and hospital) with the covid-19, with the perspective of raising public awareness in terms of production, disposal and treatment of waste. solids on the planet. There is a need for a current and future concern with the production and correct disposal of solid waste, especially contaminated waste, generated during the pandemic. We want to take advantage of the media of the pandemic and people's concern by expanding the alert and reinforcing the importance of the theme to protect and preserve the environment for future generations.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project is part of the challenge “Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way”, as we intend with the WENLIFE platform to assist in the awareness process for the correct separation, treatment and disposal of solid waste. The path offered by our platform locates the individual user of the platform and invites him to reflect on his own consumption and how he disposes of his waste. On the platform, he can monitor his production, the treatment offered in his region, the impact he has on the useful life of this disposal space, among others. In addition, worldwide data on solid waste production can also be explored. On the platform it will be possible to view information regarding domestic, industrial and hospital waste in a given region or even worldwide. Also, through the correlation of user location data and the Earth's surface temperature, the climatic conditions of each region can be verified, as it is known that both waste management and climatic conditions can affect, for example, permanence of a virus.

How We Developed This Project

We are a team that brings together students and teachers from a federal technical high school and our inspiration for the challenge “where there is a link, there is a way” came from the environmental education work developed in the last two years at the school. The dissemination of studies informing the ability of human coronaviruses to remain on inanimate surfaces, such as metal, glass or plastic for up to 9 days, drew our attention to a possible spread, contamination and even mutation of the virus along the solid waste chain. Thus, the idea arose to gather this type of information on a digital platform to promote reflection and awareness on this topic, also considering the data on the depletion of the planet, that is, how our way of consuming directly affects the available natural resources and our commitment to future generations. For this purpose, we use the data provided by NASA in James “ocean and land surface temperature” to warn, with the increase or decrease in temperature, of the greater or lesser transmission of COVID; as well as in EarthData to locate on the map the dumps and landfills that are providing us with the information used in the obtained graphics. The data will be managed through Oracle Cloud.

Our biggest challenge is to be able to gather local and regional information around the world, about the production and location of solid waste deposits, in order to correlate with the individual data collected from an application in the system.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/P8LsWKpLias

Data & Resources
Tags
#environment #wenlife #welovegraphics #zerotrash #welovediscord #spaceappschallenge
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.