Reusify

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  Dashboard

Inspiration

We were inspired to build this project after seeing that returned products account for 6 billion pounds of waste in landfills and 18 million tons of CO2 emissions annually. These returned products are often only lightly damaged and can still be used by local charities.

What it does

Reusify is a a seamless solution for businesses to donate returned or damaged goods directly to local charities as opposed to dumping them in landfills. This not only saves them money through tax rebates and reduced shipping fees but also benefits the environment by reducing landfill waste and carbon emissions from a shorter shipping distance.

A business can integrate Reusify into their website by registering and using our API. When the consumer returns and item, Reusify generates a shipping label to the local charity, allowing the consumer to directly ship to the local charity. The business can monitor how much money they have saved, recent donations and travel distance reduced on our dashboard.

How we built it

We used Figma to design the dashboard website, then built it using Sveltekit and Tailwind. The backend was built in Python with Flask over an SQLite database with SQLAlchemy. We built the consumer demo page (the generic E-Commerce site) with Mithril.js.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into some challenges with using Svelte in the beginning as many people in the team had never used it before.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to successfully create a working API and dashboard and collaborate efficiently within the short hackathon timeframe.

What we learned

We learned how to better collaborate as a team using Github.

What's next for Reusify

We plan to develop Reusify further and possibly release a public version once finished.

Built With

• flask
• mithril
• python
• svelte
• sveltekit
• tailwind
• typescript