Waste Wizard

Inspiration

An Article, about 86 per cent of Canada's plastic waste ends up in landfill, a big part due to Bad Sorting. We thought it shouldn't be impossible to build a prototype for a Smart bin.

What it does

The Smart bin is able, using Object detection, to sort Plastic, Glass, Metal, and Paper

We see all around Canada the trash bins split into different types of trash. It sometimes becomes frustrating and this inspired us to built a solution that doesn't require us to think about the kind of trash being thrown

The Waste Wizard takes any kind of trash you want to throw, uses machine learning to detect what kind of bin it should be disposed in, and drops it in the proper disposal bin

How we built it\

Using Recyclable Cardboard, used dc motors, and 3d printed parts.

Challenges we ran into

We had to train our Model for the ground up, even getting all the data

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to get the whole infrastructure build and all the motor and sensors working.

What we learned

How to create and train model, 3d print gears, use sensors

What's next for Waste Wizard

A Smart bin able to sort the 7 types of plastic

Built With

• cvad
• opencv
• python
• pytorch
• raspberry-pi
• ultralytics
• yolo