Smart Waste Segregation Using IoT

Rapid expansion in the quantity and variety of solid and hazardous waste as a consequence of continued economic development, urbanization, and industrialization poses a growing challenge for national and municipal governments to ensure efficient and long-term waste management. According to estimates, the total amount of municipal solid trash produced worldwide in 2006 was 2.02 billion tonnes, a rise of 7% annually since 2003. (Global Waste Management Market Report 2007). To reduce the risk to the patient and public health and safety, as well as an environmental hazard, waste management, transportation, and disposal must be carefully handled. There is currently no system in place for households to separate dry, moist, and metallic garbage. In order to send household waste directly for processing, an automated waste segregator is suggested in this study, which is an affordable, simple-to-use alternative. It is intended to separate the garbage into metallic, wet, and dry waste. The automated waste segregator uses a moisture sensor to discriminate between wet and dry trash and an inductive proximity sensor to detect metallic objects. According to experimental findings, the automated waste segregator has been effectively used to accomplish the classification of waste into dry, wet, and metallic waste.