ARDUINO BASED WASTE SEGREGATION SYSTEM USING ROBOTIC ARM

Robotic arm for waste segregation is proposed for segregating the wastes as metal and other wastes. People are throwing about 79.3 % of waste which can be recycled. Solution to this is to use an automatic waste segregation system. This paper proposes such a system which is cheap and easy to use. The whole process is done in two steps. Firstly, the waste is detected by IR sensor and picked up by the robot arm. Secondly, the waste picked is sensed on the waste segregation system to segregate the wastes as metal and other wastes by means of induction proximity sensor. The waste is then dumped into the bin. The proposed system utilizes Arduino mega 2560 microcontroller programmed in embedded C using Arduino IDE software.