Can we stop waste going straight to landfill? Our app looks at whether we can get more value from waste before it gets dumped.

Organisations can advertise what waste they have, other people can see if this would provide valuable input to their company. We aim to enable the 'circular economy' with the Waste Miles app.

The team is made up of Pascal Coulon, Jez Nicholson, Kev Kirkland and Tom Richards.

Please see the presentation on Prezi here.

Say you run a coffee shop in Bristol. You make lovely cups of coffee, but you have all these used coffee grinds which are going straight to landfill. There's a garden centre down the road which would love more coffee grinds to keep the slugs off the plants, and another garden centre which would like coffee grinds to turn into compost. It would be great if the garden centres could 'plug in' to the waste being produced by the coffee shop and disrupt the wasteful flow of materials to landfill.

The Waste Miles app lets organisations show what waste they are producing and where it is going.

First organisations register with the app. They give their location so we can track the distance that waste is travelling.

Next the organisation fills in the details of where their waste is going. By default the destination is landfill.

Organisations can be scored by looking at how far their waste is travelling and how much of their waste is going to landfill.

Organisations can improve their score by finding local people who can do something useful with their waste (by reducing the miles travelled and reducing the amount of rubbish sent to the tip).

Customers can check the site to see which companies are best disposing of their waste.

The Environmental Agency data sets used by Waste Miles are:

• Authorised landfill site
• EA Inspire 2011 WMS regions water management Inspire

The data can be found at http://www.geostore.com/OGC/OGCInterface?SERVICE=WMS&UID=UDATAGOV2011&PASSWORD=datagov2011&INTERFACE=ENVIRONMENT&LC=2000000000000000000000

The Shapefiles for the Environmental Agency data was loaded into PostgreSQL using the PostGIS Shapefile importer tool.

GeoServer can read the EA data sets from PostgreSQL and display it on a map.

• Ordinance Survey OpenSpace
• GeoServer
• PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Java (jsp)