Smart Bin

Abstract

One of the main concerns with our environment has been solid waste management which has adverse effect on health of the society. Effective waste management is one of the major problems of the present era. The segregation, handling, transportation and disposal of waste are to be properly managed so as to minimize the risk to the environment. The economical value of waste is best realized when it is segregated. The traditional way of manually segregating the waste utilizes more human effort, time and cost. This project proposes a Smart Bin, an Economic Automated Waste Segregator (AWS) which is cheap and easy to use solution for a segregation system at households, so that it can be sent directly for processing. It is designed to sort the refuse into metallic waste, wet waste and dry waste with a food recycling unit. AWS using Arduino MEGA is implemented using an Ultrasonic Distance Measure Sensor. Also as the garbage reaches the sensor level, message is displayed on LCD and the user will get a message in mobile using GSM technology