Just waste time trying to understand how to correctly give a product! From today the citizens of Crotone have a digital and multilingual “tutor” to differentiate waste without errorskeep under control the calendars of the door to door, know times and location of the collection points and receive messages from your municipality or manager in real time. The Krotonese company for energy and the environment (Akrea Spa), in agreement with the municipal administration, has in fact decided to give a digital turn to the environmental management service, adopting Junkerthe most widespread and advanced app for separate collection, which has already been successfully introduced to over 3,000 municipalities in Italy.
It is a choice that places the city at the forefront at the regional level: Crotone is in fact the first provincial capital in Calabria to make the app available to its users. The initiative was presented this morning in the council chamber “Falcone and Borsellino” by the mayor Vincenzo Voce, by the councilor for the environment Angela Maria De Renzo, by the president of Akrea Alberto Padula and Noemi De Santis of the Junker. The councilor for public works Rossella Parise is also present at the conference.
For citizens, the use of Junker is always free: over 3 and a half million users have already downloaded it on their smartphones and use it to have complete and geolocated information on separate collection at hand and easily access urban hygiene services in the area.
The app recognizes the waste from the barcode and with the AI
On Junker it is first possible to find all the information, validated and georeferenced, to correctly differentiate any type of refusal. Thanks to an internal database of over 2 million products, the app recognizes packaging from the barcode. Just frame the bar code with the smartphone camera to know in real time of which materials is composed and how it must be conferred. Alternatively, the app offers the possibility to take a photo of the product: by exploiting the most advanced techniques of recognition image and artificial intelligence, Junker identifies the object and materials he is composed.
And, since the rules for the differentiated are not the same throughout Italy, Junker App – thanks to geolocation – is able to customize the information based on the territory in which the user is located. Useful at home, therefore, not to make mistakes and avoid fines, but also when you move to another municipality for work or vacation.
Junker also offers a notification service, which every evening reminds the citizen which fraction will be collected the following day. In the event of a holiday, extraordinary initiatives or emergencies, the manager or the municipal administration can promptly inform users, sending a direct message to the app.
If then the waste does not fall among those conferrable to domestic containers, as in the case of expired drugs, batteries, textiles or electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), on Junker it is possible to view the collection center on map and all the other transfer points present in the area.
The app guarantees the highest usability standards. It is in fact also accessible to blind and partially sighted and is easily usable even by elderly users. All information is translated into 13 languages: in this way, foreign workers and tourists are also put in a position to carry out a perfect separate collection, like permanent residents.
Forward in a virtuous path
“With Akrea we have started a virtuous path in the field of door -to -door differentiated by involving numerous and populous neighborhoods of our city. The collaboration that citizens are offering is fundamental. Now we make a further and important tool available to them to facilitate the separate collection system that will surely be useful to continue this path together,” said the mayor voice.
“It is certainly a fundamental support for bringing citizens closer to separate collection. It is a very useful tool that will contribute to the effort that as Akrea we are impressing. The objectives that we had set ourselves for the month of March we have already achieved them in February. Now with this further tool we continue the path,” said the president of Akrea Padula.
“Thanks to Junker it becomes easier for the municipalities and managers to adapt to the quality and transparency standards provided by Arera, to make users access to information complete and immediate. In this way, the optimal conditions are created to enhance the central role of citizens in the process of managing urban waste and a “gentle push” towards an improvement in the quantity and above all of the quality of separate collection is made, a fundamental prerequisite for a more circular economy and a more sustainable company “underlines the communication manager Noemi de Santis.
As citizens will start using the app, they will discover how to make sustainability a daily habit. The advantages for the community will be environmental, in terms of CO2 reduction in the atmosphere, but also cheap, because a cleaner separate collection means lower waste management costs for the municipalities and more revenue from the consortia of the subjects.