Kielo

KIELO is a student-oriented, innovative mobile application that has been further developed as part of the Circwaste project to facilitate users' everyday recycling needs and promote ecologically sustainable development.

The application has collected information from the Kierrätys.info website about sorting instructions for different waste fractions. The instructions tell you what kind of products and materials belong in that category, what should not be put there, as well as general things to take into account. In addition to these, the user is told how the materials should be handled, as well as how they will be utilized in their future circulation.

To make it easy to take the recyclable materials to the right place, a map service is also included in the application. Using KIVO's database, all sorting points in Finland have been collected for the map service. By pressing the locations, a more detailed address opens, as well as the materials that are accepted at the sorting point. You can also search for sorting points, limiting yourself to only the desired materials.

The application is also testing how packaging information from GS1 Finland's product information service could be used in sorting instructions. This has been implemented with a scanner, which, when reading the product's barcode, opens the recycling instructions for that product. At the moment, the scanner only works with limited Cloetta test data, where there are about 10 different products. These products are mentioned separately in the application. If the experiment is successful, GS1's full database will be included in the application.

As an additional spice, the application has an educational trivia feature with different levels of difficulty. In Visa, the user's knowledge of recycling different materials is challenged and it is possible to do it in three different levels of difficulty.
The content of the visa has been checked by the Circular Economy business models research group of Turku University of Applied Sciences.

A Waste Meter has also been developed for the application, where the user can mark the bags of mixed waste they take out and try to reduce their consumption by utilizing the sorting instructions provided in the application and the locations of the sorting points.