Design and Development of Solar Powered Fully Automatic Biodegradable Waste Sorter and Composter

India is well known for its population and then obviously, the side effects of increasing population. One of the major side effects of the increasing population is kitchen waste creation from individual homes or hotels. The major concern is regarding the inclusion of non-degradable waste in the overall waste created. The researchers contributed a lot to define the categories of waste, but segregation of waste is a trending and vital issue now. Not only in India but in all developing countries, more emphasis has been done on awareness of separating degradable waste from non-degradable ones and this motivates an engineer to design a machine/technology which will sort degradable waste from the non-degradable one. The waste sorter is designed to identify the type of waste based on the image processing technique and then sort it into two containers named green waste and non-degradable waste. In this work, a robotic arm has been designed which operates based on the instruction given by the controller. The controller takes input from a high resolution camera. The system developed can identify the type of waste based on the percentage of degradable waste included in one set of identification. The percentage level of degradable waste can be set manually as per the user's demand. The waste so sorted will be called degradable waste and can be used for several applications like compost. The system has been designed to operate completely on Solar Energy and hence charge controllers and battery systems are employed in it. This makes this machine as a form of green technology that can be placed anywhere in outside places and waste can be placed in its containers to get sorted. This model will certainly be helpful in municipal corporations where sorting of waste is the biggest headache. The sorted biodegradable waste is provided to the green dustbin and hence to the composter where the temperature and oxidation will be monitored effectively to create compost from the waste sorted. This compost will certainly be useful for agriculture fertilizer at no cost and with no pollution.