International Conference on Current Trends in Computer, Electrical, Electronics and Communication (ICCTCEEC-2017)
SMART TRASH: An Efficient Way for Monitoring
Solid Waste Management
Ujwala Ravale Anindita Khade
Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor,
Dept. Of CE Dept. Of CE
SIESGST SIESGST
Nerul, Navi Mumbai Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Abstract² Solid waste management is primary issue in modern
cities due to increase population, change in our lifestyle and
increased in number of industries. As we have seen number of times
the dustbins get overflowed and the concerned people don¶t get the
information within a time and due to which filthy condition formed
around the surroundings, at the same time bad smell spread out due
to waste, bad look of the city which paves the way for air pollution
and to some harmful diseases around the locality which is easily
spreadable. It creates unhygienic condition for the people and
creates bad ugliness around the surroundings. This leads in
spreading some deadly diseases & human illness, to avoid such a
situation we are planning to design Solid Waste Management using
Smart Bin. This will help to provide a better standard of living for
people. Also the waste generated can be forwarded to recycling
centers as well as biodegradation centers according to the type of
waste.The major advantage of this proposed system is it will stop
the dustbin overflowing around the road side and localities as smart
bins are used in real time.
Keywords² Raspberry Pi, Arduino Uno Board, Level detecting
sensors,IoT
1. INTRODUCTION
Internet of Things is a new revolution of the
Internet. The goal of the Internet of Things is to enable
things to be connected anytime, anyplace, with anything and
anyone ideally using any path/network and any service. In
the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, many of the objects
that surround us will be on the network in one form or
another. Smart connectivity with existing networks and
context-aware computation using network resources is an
essential part of IoT. The rising population in India causes
serious problems with regard to availability of living space,
utilization of natural resources, education and employment.
But another serious problem rising is that amount of waste
generated by each individual for each minute. In India,
978-1-5386-3243-7/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE
1135
Namrata Patel Suvarna Chaure
Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor,
Dept. Of CE Dept. Of CE
SIESGST SIESGST
Nerul, Navi Mumbai Nerul, Navi Mumbai
collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste is
unscientific and chaotic.
I. NEED FOR SMART THRASH BIN
Although the world is in a stage of up gradation, there is yet
another problem that has to be deal with is Garbage. Dustbin
is a basic and common need everywhere. Many times it is
observed that garbage bins being overfull and the garbage
being spilled out from the bins around us. This leads to
various diseases as large number of insects and mosquitoes
breed on it. Breeding of these mosquitoes causes various
diseases like malaria, dengue etc. Majority of viruses and
bacterial infections develop in polluted environment.
Safeguarding the environment using technology sources is
needed at present. Majority of the public environment seems
to be polluted with the waste material. A big challenge in the
urban cities is solid waste management. Now with rise of
technology it is high time to use technology for waste
management [1]. Hence, smart dustbin is a system which can
eliminate this problem or at least reduce it to the minimum
level. Our present Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra
Modiji has introduced the concept of implementing 100 smart
cities in India. ³Swachh Bharat Abhiyan´ was initiated to
ensure a clean environment. Majority of viruses and bacterial
infections develop in polluted environment. Safeguarding the
environment using technology sources is needed at present.
Majority of the public environment seems to be polluted with
the waste material. So, modernization of the dustbins is
needed by imparting the smart technology.
 International Conference on Current Trends in Computer, Electrical, Electronics and Communication (ICCTCEEC-2017)

II. METHODOLOGY

Fig. 1
The above figure shows the block diagram of the proposed
system. It contains two IR sensors, Arduino Uno and
Raspberry pie. Amongst the two ultrasonic one IR sensor will Fig 3 : At receiving station(The SERVER)
detect 50% garbage collected in dustbin and second IR sensor
will detect 100% garbage collected in dustbin. IR sensors are
The above flowcharts explains the entire system of garbage
used to detect the level of garbage collected in dustbin. Output
collection.
of IR sensor is given to Arduino Uno board which act as
system controller. The status of bin are informed to municipal
IV. RESULTS
control unit through Raspberry pie.
The below screenshots indicate the working of the proposed
III. SYSTEM FLOW model.

At first, the level of garbage collected in dustbin is measured

by Infrared sensor. One Infrared sensor is going to detect 50%
threshold level of bin whether it is half filled. Second Infrared
sensor is going to detect that bin is completely full. If the
garbage level is crossing 50% level then first warning
message is sent to municipality. When bin is completely full
then again second warning message is sent to municipality.

Fig 2. At sending station (The local Dustbin)

Fig 4.Locations and status of trash bins.

1136
 International Conference on Current Trends in Computer, Electrical, Electronics and Communication (ICCTCEEC-2017)

The results clearly depict how the status of bin located at

Nerul has changed indicating the same to the municipal
corporation regional office.

V. APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE WORK

This proposed approach can be used to keep our city clean.

Also this is the first step to manage waste. This work can be
further extended as to identifying the type of waste and
disposing thereafter. This can help very efficiently in wet
waste management.

VI. REFERENCES

[1]Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab

,MohdRazaliTomari,MohamadHairolJabbar," Smart Recycle Bin A
Conceptual Approach of Smart Waste Management with Integrated Web
based System" 2014

[2] Narayan Sharma, Nirman Singha, Tanmoy Dutta., Smart Bin

Implementation for Smart Cities ,IJSER,Volume 6,Issue 9,September
2015 
Fig 5. Database connections to the server
[3] Adil Bashir, Shoaib Amin Banday, Ab. Rouf Khan, Mohammad
Shafi," Concept, Design and Implementation of Automatic Waste
Management System", International Journal on Recent and Innovation
Trends in Computing and Communication ISSN 2321 ± 8169,
Volume:1Issue:7
604 ± 609, 2016.


Fig 6.Status of bin located at Nerul has changed

1137