GRIME · v3 · Live on Ellerbe Creek

GRIME

Rivers remember everything we throw away.
We built the system to take it back.

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Tons of plastic entering the world's waterways every single year
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Of waterway plastic never recovered — it reaches the ocean
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Trillion pieces of plastic currently floating in the world's oceans
How GRIME works
From watershed
to clean water.
01 — Analyze
Watershed Intelligence
Digital elevation models processed through pysheds hydrological algorithms to identify where trash naturally concentrates — before it ever reaches the ocean.
02 — Deploy
Optimal Placement
Sites scored by generation rate, flow velocity, catchment area, and environmental justice index. Deploy collection units precisely where the math says it matters most.
03 — Collect
Autonomous Action
Computer vision classifies debris in real time. The unit fills autonomously, pings operators via LoRa, and resets — closing the loop on waterway trash at scale.
Live system
Every river. Every site.
All in one view.
108,772 cities · Real elevation data · Scoring that actually works.
GRIME 108,772 cities loaded across 195 countries Waterways Satellite v3 Search cities, countries... 108.7K CITIES 195 COUNTRIES 2.4M CANDIDATES GLOBAL COVERAGE 🇺🇸 Durham, NC 283K 🇧🇷 Manaus 2.2M 🇮🇳 Kolkata 4.5M 🇧🇩 Dhaka 8.9M 🇳🇬 Lagos 14.8M DURHAM · TOP SITES 1 Ellerbe Creek @ Roxboro St 87 2 Sandy Creek @ Hwy 55 74 3 Walnut Creek @ Gorman St 71 87 COMPOSITE SCORE Generation 81 Flow 90 Impact 69 Feasibility 80 Site #1 · Score 87 Ellerbe Creek @ Roxboro St 36.0251° N 78.9012° W Optimal placement confirmed © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap
Global reach
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Cities analyzed worldwide
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The unit
Built to float.
Built to last.
Solar-powered. Computer vision enabled. Custom PCB. Designed from the ground up for autonomous waterway deployment.
PCB · GRIME-03 US-SNSR Solar array · 12V / 10W CV Camera · YOLOv8 LoRa Antenna · 915 MHz Custom PCB · Raspberry Pi Collection mesh · HDPE Catamaran hull · HDPE float Ultrasonic fill sensor — waterline
GRIME

Watershed intelligence. At scale. In real time.

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