Design of smart dustbin.

Abstract

Garbage in Uganda is a very serious problem and becomes a social, economic, and cultural. Almost all cities in Uganda experience problems in waste management. The highest focus is the accumulation of plastic waste. Every individual would want everything that looks clean and beautiful, one of which is environmental cleanliness. There are still many individuals who tend to be less aware of the cleanliness of their environment. This is reflected in a large amount of garbage scattered on the streets and in city parks. This situation certainly creates unrest for public facility users. Dustbins that have been provided by the sanitation department are only a mute decoration on roads that are not maintained, are not attractive and are very dirty. Maybe this is also factor that causes people not to throw garbage in the right place and the level of laziness to throw garbage is getting higher. Feeling lazy arises because the existing dustbins still use a simple method, namely by opening the lid and the dustbins are still manual. This will cause the hands to be very susceptible to bacteria from the trash. Where there is still a lot of garbage scattered about, students tend to litter, this is also caused by the waste that is very minimal, unattractive, traditional, dirty, and poorly maintained. Then for lecturers/educational staff also tends to be lazy in throwing garbage into the right place, because the location is very far from reach. In raising awareness of our concern for environmental cleanliness, we assume that there needs to be a unique way so that everyone is interested and is not lazy to throw garbage in the right place. The unique way is to design and implement a smart dustbin. This is a smart dustbin for dry trash, the lid can be opened automatically and when the trash is added, it closes automatically. The smart dustbins that we recommend are of two types, namely a mini-size smart dustbin that will be used on every work desk for lecturers’/campus employees and a super-size smart dustbin for use in every room. Our research is started and applied in a small area first as a reference to support smart campuses and smart environments in welcoming the industrial revolution with a variety of information technology and machine intelligence that continues to evolve.