Want to produce less waste in 2023? Buy greener products? Support eco-friendly causes?
There is, of course, an app for that.
Actually, there are well over 100 apps, for both iPhones and Androids, that claim to help users fight the effects of climate change in some way. Many are buggy, little-used or outdated, since most apps are made by startups that often don’t have support to follow through at scale. Some are little more than greenwashing, using environmentally-friendly claims to hawk products. And some sound promising but aren’t yet available locally — like BlaBlaCar, a carpooling app that can be used in places like Europe and Mexico.
But other apps