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Eco-Bin

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Revolutionizing Waste Management

Amitesh, Maaz, Sahaj, Paramveer

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Understanding the Problem

  • Incorrect recycling has potentially disastrous effects of our environment and economy
  • According to the city of Toronto reducing the amount of garbage in the recycling bins by 1% can save anywhere from $600 000 to $1 000 000 a year!
  • There is a market that needs to be addressed and an environmental issue that need to be tackled

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Overview

This system was designed to make waste collection more efficient, organized and user-friendly.

Keeping the end users in mind we have created a system that detects what type of waste has been inserted in the bin and categorizes it as a recyclable or garbage.

The system then opens the appropriate shoot (using motors) and turns on an LED corresponding to the type of waste that was just disposed to educate the user.

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Targets

  • Our target customers include:
  • Malls
  • Parks
  • Universities
  • Other public areas!

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Hardware Components Used

  • Arduino Uno
  • Stepper Motors (x1)
  • LED’s (x2)
  • Motion Sensor (indicating when an object is thrown in the waste bin)
  • Ultrasonic Sensors

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Software

  • Google Vision API - used to identify the object thrown in the waste
  • Python - use of PYserial to communicate to the Arduino whether the waste object is recyclable (1) or garbage (0)
  • Arduino IDE - used to implement the correct disposal of the waste object

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Problems

  • The camera that we got was broken and did not work, so we had to make adjustments

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  • Initially wanted to use the Dragonboard 410c, but we were getting a lot of errors

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  • API installation was tricky

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Next Steps

  • Implement a full dictionary or database of the recyclable and compostable material
  • Train the AI so it can learn how to identify and distinguish between types of waste
  • Implement counters and further statistics that can be forwarded to the city for data collection
  • Automatically fetch pictures from the computer/file as pictures are taken from the sensors to automatically run the program continuously
  • Better sensors and motors
  • Attach an axle to the motor to create a better platform for waste collection

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Thank you!