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 [INAUDIBLE]..

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?

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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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