We plan to address the issue of plastic waste by organizing our first community project assembling and designing sustainable trash smart bins for the recycling of PLASTIC. FUCHA bins, an abbreviation for Fedha Uchafu, meaning lucrative waste management aims to transform plastic waste collected from different areas into eco-bricks for sustainable spaces. We will start with a pilot from University of Dar-es-salaam areas for starters, then move to other areas as we progress.
We believe this initiative will help reduce plastic waste in our environment and get us on our way to contributing towards our SDGs 8, 11 & 13. This will also act as a source of employment to artists and as tourism attraction. This is because of the artistic dust bins placed all over the city.
The end goal is for the plastic collected to be recycled into regenerative products, say build classrooms/ shelters, chairs or anything that can be recycled and made out of plastic for a greater cause. Fucha Bins provides the mechanisms for it to happen.
- FUCHA Bins physical designs >>> 3D model converted to NFT for operations & governance >>> collection of plastic >>> data is measured, recorded and valued on IPFS >>> earn plastic credits on chain >>> utility recyclables (e.g. plastic furniture, Eco-bricks).
- The University students organize from 5-10 Go-green champions who will oversee the stationing of the bins, the recycling process, learn about plastic & carbon credits incentives, NFT utility and then create a sustainable subDAO for the project in the long run, to show the Blockchain use case.
Companies
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Mitigation of plastic waste production through selling of carbon credits.
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Provision of cheaper and more eco-friendly building material.
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Branding opportunities to support plastic waste reduction and community development initiatives.
Community
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Reduction of plastic waste in the community.
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Enhancement of community appearance.
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Provision of cheaper and more Eco-friendly building material.
Artists
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Opportunities to utilize creative skill in community development.
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Opportunities to earn more from creative work through NFT market.
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Education of practical applications of Web 3 technology in artistic field.
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Digital representation of physical art in the metaverse to counteract the ephemeral of public art.
Data is also another crucial aspect we'll be looking to leverage on, so that we will be able to create incentives to collect and recycle plastics sustainably for organizations, individuals and the community at large. We plan on utilizing the IPFS protocol for the storage of this data to ensure enhanced security, control and transparency.
NFTs Storage Space
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Stats Storage
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Website Hosting
We used OpenSea TestNet as our NFT marketPlace becasue it is the world's first and largest web3 marketplace for NFTs and crypto collectibles.
Links to Our NFTs
The FuchaNft contract is mainly tested on local blockchain environments and on testnets, the files(snapshots and img) were stored on IPFS and Pinata(in case our ipfs node goes down).
Issues encountered
- Theres has been an issue with opensea testnet goerli not being able to fully upload the img fully, its believed to be an opensea testnet issue.