Smart Dustbin for Waste Management

Abstract—Sri Lanka is facing urbanization with the impact of globalization, which has results in an increase of needs and wants of people and increasing living standards of people tremendously. Urbanization directly contributes to waste generation, and unscientific waste handling causes health hazards and urban environment degradation. The failure to address this escalating problem in a timely manner resulted in unsanitary eye sores and the degradation of wetlands, coastline, rivers and other streams which become dumping sites for plastic polythene and other mixed waste.

Index Terms—Eco-points, RFID, smart dustbin, waste categorizing.

W. A. L. Gayanthika, S. D. H. S. Wikramarathne, and R. M. I. S. Ranasingha are with the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka (e-mail: lakshani0915@gmail.com, harshisd@gmail.com, iranthiranasinghe@gmail.com).
G. K. C. D. Maduranga is with the Auxenta (pvt) Ltd of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka (e-mail: cdm829@gmail.com).
A. I. S. Silva is with the department of Marketing of Asia Broadcasting Corporation Private Limited, Sri Lanka (e-mail: irusha.sandeepa@gmail.com).

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Cite: W. A. L. Gayanthika, G. K. C. D. Maduranga, A. I. S. Silva, S. D. H. S. Wikramarathne, and R. M. I. S. Ranasinghe, "Smart Dustbin for Waste Management," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 118-121, 2019.

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