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The plastic in the ocean did not walk there. It slipped past every system meant to stop it. Baeru Coast Clear is a coastal climate-tech innovation that makes ocean-bound plastic visible, verifiable, and recoverable. We combine community-led recovery with AI-powered traceability using image recognition to identify and classify waste at the point of collection, IoT-enabled weighing systems for real-time, tamper-proof data capture, and voice-based logging that simplifies data entry in low-literacy environments to track waste from coastal leakage points to its end destination. Built with women from fishing communities in India, our system works in the harsh, low-resource conditions where most waste technologies fail: from harbours and informal dumping points to storm-hit coastlines. By turning invisible waste flows into trusted, actionable data, we create stronger livelihoods and scalable infrastructure for coastal resilience.
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