Mapping Plastic Bag Pollution Around the World
Every Instagram photo of a plastic bag in a tree, tagged with #bagsintrees, is displayed on our bag map. Using this map, we'll be able to see the extent of plastic pollution in trees throughout the world.
Only a small percentage of the plastic bags that litter our cities become caught in trees. These bags in trees serve as an indicator of the level of plastic bag pollution in a given area.
Cities throughout The United States and other countries are moving to ban or dis-incentivize the use of plastic bags. Most recently, the state of California just passed legislation preventing grocery stores from using plastic bags. Data from Bags In Trees can be used by groups promoting such causes to show the prevelance and distribution of bags in their area.
Bags In Trees data can also be used to highlight cities with plastic bag bans by showing the relative scarcity of plastic bag pollution in trees.
Cities can leverage the geo-tagged data of plastic bags in trees to locate and remove plastic bags.
All you need is an Instagram account and your smart phone. Visit http://wwww.bagsintrees.org to get started!
Installation steps are not quite complete. I'll add more over time.
- Clone this repo
- Install npm and node (https://github.com/creationix/nvm is an easy method)
- Install mysql
- Install gulp 'npm install -g gulp'
- Run the sql/create.sql script on your mysql database
- npm install
- Create a folder called etc under the root, save the following exports to a file called 'environment' under ./etc
export ENVIRONMENT=development/production
export CLIENT_ID=
export GOOGLE_API_KEY=
export mysqlUser=
export mysqlPassword=
export mysqlHost=localhost
export mysqlDatabase=bagsintrees
export msyqlConnectionPoolLimit=250
Locally: ./dev_start
Copyright (C) 2014 Jim Clouse
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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