Inspiration

40% of the items in recycling bins cannot be recycled due to contamination, putting everyone's good efforts to waste. As such, we need a solution that prevents unrecyclable trash from entering our recycling bins

What it does

Our smart bin lid detects recyclable and non-recyclable trash and prevents non-recyclable trash from entering the bin by simply not opening the lid, thus preventing contamination. Our lid is also customised to fit the Singapore Blue recycling bin and is thus easily deployable on recycling all bins across the nation.

How we built it

We used the yolov5 object detection model and app development tools

Challenges we ran into

Deployment issues with Raspi and Arduino

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Completing the project with only existing resources, completing the project without prior preparations

What we learned

To be adaptable and to deploy CV models to IoT

What's next for Trashify

Improving detection accuracy, reducing cost

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