RecycleIT

Abstract

In 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash and recycled and composted about 87 million tons of this material, equivalent to a 34.3 percent recycling rate only.

It is difficult, costly and in the coming years will be almost impossible to separate disposable and non-disposal material in factories. Recycling must take place at homes. Simply separating plastic, glass and consumables is not enough

Considering the huge problem of plastic pollution, all over the world, a single person mixing the wrong type of trash or garbage items can ruin the entire wastage disposal process. This causes our environment to remain polluted and unhygienic for longer period of time.

The motivation behind this project is to facilitate people in helping a recycler. Without going through the tedious activity of learning and differentiating each object to dispose, leaving that to our software to do, it also promotes a sense of good will by providing citizens the facility to report trash littered all over the city with the click of a button. Plastic and other hard to dispose trash variants have been the cause of serious pollution. Burning of these materials is damaging sea life and human life causing many other environmental issues. Our project seeks to aim at helping people recycle better by identifying and categorizing objects into recyclable, disposable and other categories.