E-Safe: An E-waste Management and Awareness Application using YOLO Object Detection

Technology and related fields are advancing rapidly in today’s era, which is leading to the increased usage of electronic equipment especially mobile phones. This rapid growth in the usage of technological equipment gives rise to E-waste generation since the advancement in technology forces the users to replace their existing equipment with the advanced ones. This throw on the scrapheap is increasing exponentially, leading to the immense generation of E-waste. The growing amount of waste must be properly handled and disposed off. E-waste mainly consists of chemicals and metals, which can be harmful or toxic in nature. Giving a blind eye to the handling of this waste can lead to great mishaps. Here, it mainly focuses on the technologies used for the handling of E-waste and provide a technical solution, which is an Android Application. This will take the image for processing and based on YOLO algorithms, it will identify the electronic device from image and will list out the components of identified device. The final output of the application will make the E-waste management process easier for managing data and will work as an awareness tool to make people aware about the E-Waste threats.