The "Recycling Tree" was presented at the Maker Faire in Rome, a project that aims to raise awareness on the issue of separate waste collection proposed by Link Campus University
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Smart bin: or like a dustbin it teaches you to do correctly separate waste collection. The "Recycling Tree“, A project that aims to raise awareness on the issue of separate waste collection proposed by Link Campus University.
It is a real bin capable of understanding, recognizing and even rexpel waste that has not been properly recycled, calculating the energy savings of the correct disposal. Through an installation.
But how does it work? The system is based on a kind of automatic differentiation of garbage and consists of two "intelligent" bins that allow the user to be able to collect and differentiate plastic bottles from aluminum cans and an animation whose contents will be projected on the rear wall of them. This installation will also give the savings index in terms of CO2, energy and water emissions.
For this purpose, two were used board Galileo first generation thanks to which it is possible to manage the various servocontrollers and the various sensors contained in the plywood structure. In each bin there are three 6V servo controllers with 180 ° rotation angle to manage the various opening / closing mechanisms of the compartments.
How is plastic recognized? A will tell us system based on the refraction of light, which uses a bright LED and a brightness sensor. While for aluminum, on the other hand, the electrical conduction capacity of the bottom of the cans is exploited, the closure of a circuit is then verified. Both structures allow the detection of the inserted material, both correctly and incorrectly. So if you put a can in the plastic bin, the bin will elegantly reject it and notify you of the error.
Germana Carillo
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