Recyclable and Non-Recyclable Waste Recognition using Image Processing with Machine Learning: Recycle Mate

Waste Management is the effort needed to make our world a better place. As solid waste may cause a problem for our surroundings. Nowadays many people don't even know how to distinguish between recyclable and non-recyclable objects, we know only some general things which are recyclable like paper, plastic, cardboard and drinking cans. To deal with this problem a deep machine-learning Convolution Neural Network (CNN) was created to help us all with an achievable waste management task. The automated task works for everyone as it lets down the burden of work from many people’s shoulders. Our model is built using the Keras API. The model categorizes the data into a binary class. It has been tested with many objects which gave an acceptable prediction accuracy.