Meeting Time
Monday 7pm
Project description
Global EPICS in Indonesia
This project’s main challenge is optimizing the collection and management of marine litter for the fisherman of a community called “Saiyo Sakato Mandiri”. Our goal is to make the marine litter bank profitable, despite them having to manually collect and sort litter from along this coastline. Our EPICS project will focus on developing a long-term solution to collecting, sorting, and managing the marine litter in Indonesia. Also create a solution that can be used anywhere in the world with a similar problem as those in Saiyo Sakato Mandiri. With a collaboration of the local government, business, fishermen, and students, the project aims to help with the livelihoods of the local fishermen by improving their organization and collection time and reduce the amount of effort they put into their litter clean up so that it better matches with the This project’s aim and final product will be a potential solution to marine litter across the globe as it boosts efficiency for these fishermen and reduce problems in other areas.