thrift

Inspiration

Climate change is argued to be the world’s biggest problem, with strong scientific evidence that the time for climate action is now. Fast fashion is one of the biggest contributers to climate change, and we hope to encourage individuals to shop sustainably.

10% of the greenhouse gases are from fashion products.
The equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothes is burned or dumped in a landfill every second 500,000 tons of microfibers are released into the ocean each year from washing clothes — equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles

What it does

Thrift is a google chrome extension helping shoppers shop sustainably with one click of a button. Our ultimate goal is to help browsing online shopping consumers find and buy garments second-hand that can have an influence to help stop climate change. With Thrift, we suggest second-hand items that are similar to the garment the user is browsing but are cheaper and can be upcycled. We also want to raise awareness about shopping consumer habits, checking the textile composition- making them think twice before buying.

How I built it

We built the back end with python and flask. The front end was built with html, css and javascript.

What's next for thrift

We hope to... add a tracking feature to provide a history of clothing garments the user viewed add technical code to web scrape material composition and visually model it on the pie chart use ML to detect the colour and description of the garment through the image

Built With

Submitted to

JAMHacks 6
- Winner Best Sustainability / Social Good Hack

Created by

I worked on the back-end of the Chrome extension. I used a combination of JS and json primarily for the extension back-end, and also helped with the web-scrapping process with python.

Sophie Yang
I worked on our idea, coded our chrome extension using HTML and CSS, and made the presentation for our pitch.

Bella Kim
thrift was my idea since fashion is a huge passion of mine. I fully designed the extension on Figma, hard coded the front-end HTML+CSS files and wrote the pitch.

Teresa Yu
I worked on the back-end of the Chrome extension. It was my first-time web-scraping using Python and Flask, which was a bit overwhelming but I really enjoyed learning it. I also helped with the presentation.

Alka Devi Ukrani