Drones to Help with Discovering Hidden Trash on Clear Up Australia Day

by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby

Sydney-based drone startup Aerologix has introduced a partnership with Clear Up Australia to help communities in cleansing hidden pockets of rubbish in waterways and nature reserves. This weekend’s cleanup will see pilots deal with capturing aerial footage alongside the Northern Seashores shoreline. The gathered picture and video shall be used to geolocate trash and spotlight hotspots on a map for clear up teams to focus their consideration on.

“I’m so excited to be working with Clear Up Australia, it’s been a imaginative and prescient of mine since we began the enterprise 4 years in the past,” mentioned Aerologix Founder and CEO, Tom Caska. “Utilizing revolutionary expertise for constructive change is considered one of our mottos and I can’t consider a greater software to try this. One of many issues that excites us most is utilizing new expertise in a brand new means to assist the surroundings and assist clear the planet up.

“I reside on the Northern Seashores and am enthusiastic about conserving our group clear.  With our enormous community of 10,000+ pilots I’m thrilled to be kicking off the partnership in my very own again yard, and serving to to carry the group collectively for a typical trigger, with a view to increasing for subsequent yr’s Clear Up Australia Day,” Caska continued.

Australia produces 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste yearly, amounting to roughly 100 kg per particular person. Solely 13% of that plastic is recovered, with 84% despatched to landfill.  Because the nation continues to cope with its rising waste drawback, it turns into more and more essential to assist new revolutionary options. Aerial expertise allows the retrieval of waste pockets that will in any other case be troublesome to find on foot.

The nation’s largest community-based environmental occasion, Clear Up Australia has been working for 33 years. Over 20 million Australians have donated their time to the occasion since its founding by Ian Kiernan on January 21, 1990.

“This can be a actually thrilling partnership as we all know how huge a distinction expertise stands to make in aerial surveillance, particularly throughout such an enormous nation like Australia,” added Caska.

“We’re excited to be partnering with Aerologix to acquire entry to by no means earlier than seen areas of garbage from the sky,” mentioned Clear Up Australia CEO Jenny Geddes, “This can give our Clear Up Australia groups the flexibility to clear drawback areas that will in any other case stay out of sight.”

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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he obtained a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in expertise, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.

Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory surroundings for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered on the industrial drone house and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the trade.  Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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