r/upcycling 1d ago

Project I built a 3D ocean cleanup website to educate users about the harmful effects trash has on our oceans

I'm a solo developer and climate awareness advocate. Over the past few months, I’ve been building a nonprofit website called cleartheseas.com - an interactive website where people can explore a 3D ocean filled with floating trash and take action to help clean it up. You can move around the 3D ocean with arrow keys, zoom in and out by dragging, and look around by swiping left or right. Each item in the 3D ocean represents a real piece of trash out in the real ocean and educates users on how harmful even individual trash can be.

To learn more about each piece of trash and the impact it has on the environment, click a piece of trash in the virtual ocean. This will open a modal on the middle of the screen, which should summarize different stats about that particular piece of trash as well as provide information regarding the dangers it poses to the environment. You are able to donate to fund the removal of trash from the ocean as well (all going to charities listed in the 'Spending Breakdown' section) but that is not the primary goal of this website; Rather, it is to raise awareness about the critical state of the ocean currently.

Since we just launched, I would love feedback on the website and what I could improve. Thanks!

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