{"title": "♻️ Litter Token ($LTK) - We pay people to pick up litter 🚮", "logoImg": "bafybeideoaj7s2mg67xcei5hygonuvovhtu6mh4aartzqevzkma7zm3zey", "website": "https://www.littertoken.xyz/", "bannerImg": "bafybeiephnid4p5zd2nts5fge2b4lptagfbhboqytqseypiczxatpymkiq", "createdAt": 1673364644038, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..XlpLfIeHCfOPXpccFpVQ1Bn6d_x6RhcatumsNzaMTrGys9QHd62uHbAAruWbpJufZS7RxcwkrDYlS0gL8CSTCg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-04-15T14:31:42.112Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-04-15T14:31:42.112Z", "expirationDate": "2024-07-14T14:31:42.112Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x4AFC0c9a5C4060DF2345C5b8C73e8eDBA2DE8E47", "hash": "v0.0.0:POuLueCOq9lfceIJjRCFgTl4GxGFSI3lCoeSaqR4PNM=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#litter_token"}}}, "description": "**SUMMARY**\n\n[![otamiri-group-pickup.png](https://i.postimg.cc/Hs022gRC/otamiri-group-pickup.png)](https://postimg.cc/hfjTDHKC)\n\n♻️ Litter Token pays people to pick up litter and clean up the planet.\n\nWe have picked up 90,246 pieces of litter (& counting!) as a community and we have open source picture proof for every single piece (linked below).\n\n📸 *Litter Photo Verification:* https://bit.ly/47bJNxC\n\n**GLOBAL REACH**\n\n[![ph-pickup-fery.png](https://i.postimg.cc/59rdVw2t/ph-pickup-fery.png)](https://postimg.cc/vD5S7x9R)\n\n🌍 Our community members pick up litter across 12 countries including Brazil, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Colombia, USA, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Philippines & Puerto Rico. We are mostly concentrated in the Global South where income from Litter Token often surpasses that of a local government employee (on an hourly basis). \n\n**HOW IT WORKS**\n\n[![Screenshot-20221127-104220.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/fR7ZvJjf/Screenshot-20221127-104220.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/RW0jSCYW)\n\n📸 Send us a picture of the litter item you picked up and threw out. Post it in our Discord. We then send Litter Tokens directly to your crypto wallet that can be swapped for USDC (1 LTK = $1.00).\n\n**USE OF GITCOIN FUNDS**\n\n🏁 GITCOIN GRANTS 20 GOAL:\n\nRaise at least $1,500 in order to get us to 100,000 liter pieces picked up & to cover the legal costs to become an official 501(c)3 organization in the United States.\n\n🚮 We use Gitcoin Quadratic Funds to fund more litter pickups across the world! Each $1.00 funds another 25 pieces of litter being picked up and taken off of the streets.\n\n🌊 Previous Gitcoin rounds have enabled us to pay people to pick up nearly 100,000 pieces of litter across the globe - we have also conducted large group pickups in Puerto Rico, Nigeria, Tanzania & Kenya with these funds.\n\nExamples of climate efforts we have been able to fund with Gitcoin funds- \n\n🇳🇬 Otamiri River Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/C19pHNFr4BL/?img_index=1\n\n🇳🇬 Nworie River Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5RvOrFLoX_/?img_index=1\n\n🇳🇬 Ngor-Okpala Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ixdy6rvfB/?img_index=1\n\n🇵🇭 Calmay River Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/C35K4ZIrf5P/?img_index=1\n\n🇳🇬 Cross River Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3NgsR2L5ah/?img_index=1\n\n🇳🇬 Ngor-Okpala Litter Pickup #2: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2pzk_8vH67/?img_index=1\n\n🇵🇭 Holiday Donation Drive Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1j-vpFrRFO/?img_index=1\n\n🇵🇭 Maples River Litter Pickup: https://www.instagram.com/p/CzG0cgmrCpA/?img_index=1\n\n**ROADMAP**\n\n[![Screenshot-2024-04-15-at-8-44-55-AM.png](https://i.postimg.cc/kMypwKk4/Screenshot-2024-04-15-at-8-44-55-AM.png)](https://postimg.cc/9zrbQRX5)\n\n➡️ *Priority #1:* Get to 100k litter pieces picked up (currently at 90,246 pieces) 🚮\n➡️ *Priority #2:* Incorporate as an official 501(c)3 to appeal to diverse funding sources 📑\n➡️ *Priority #3:* Become an on-chain DAO 🔗\n➡️ *Priority #4:* Build low-cost software that automatically verifies litter pickups using geo-location, duplication tracking, etc. 🤖\n➡️ *Priority #5:* Get to 1M litter pieces picked up by Litter Token globally 🌐\n\n**LESSONS LEARNED**\n\n💡 A major lesson learned was that Litter Token does not need to be a market-based token to be effective. In fact, people who pick up litter prefer a stable token price so that they reliably estimate how much they will be paid for their time and effort. As such, our community has voted to transition to a stablecoin model that simply pays people 1 $LTK (equivalent to $1.00) for every 25 pieces of litter picked up.\n\nWe are exploring a multi-chain approach for our stablecoin and are considering blockchains like Optimism, Celo, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon & Ethereum as the blockchain homes for the new Litter Token stablecoin.\n\n⏰ Moving forward, our biggest focus is funding. We have no shortage of people who are eager to pick up litter in exchange for compensation. Instead, we must ensure that our fundraising efforts are faster than our efforts to pick up litter. We will continue to rely on the generosity of the Quadratic Funding community and we will also seek to diversify our funding sources by tapping into Corporate Donations and Grant Funding more.\n\n**IMPACT**\n\n[![IMG-7762.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/zX5nfqYM/IMG-7762.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/K4qKqSzr)\n\n📈 *GHG Impact:* The rough estimate of the greenhouse gas (GHG) impact from picking up 90,246 pieces of litter is approximately 20,305 kg of CO2 equivalents saved.\n\n🌎 *Countries Impacted:* Brazil, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Colombia, USA, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Philippines & Puerto Rico\n\n📒 *Impact Reports:* We publish a quarterly impact report including a clear breakdown of how we are using funds and our current financial situation. We have also open sourced all spending so that it can be tracked and evaluated by the public. We take pride in being ultra-transparent.\n\nWe hope receive your support in order to continue cleaning up our communities and paying people to do it!", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "litter_token"}