Proper waste management is a basic requirement in any kind of an environment. Usually cleaning in these environments are done in the morning and the afternoon. If you take an urban city like Kandy usually there are about 100,000 to 150,000 employees heading for their workstations every morning. For all those people, there are just not enough garbage bins available. On the streets of urban cities, hundreds of people are passing the same location around one minute. Around 95% of people are carrying food covers, polythene bags, and plastic bottles. If they dispose all them at once, the bins will be filled in several minutes. When they fill up people just litter their trash around the garbage bins because there is nowhere else to put them. The obvious solution to this is for the cleaning staff to stay near garbage bins every day till they fill up to clean them. This is not a real solution. It takes way more cleaning staff and costs a lot of money. So, it is impractical. The same scenario is happening in workstations. For instance, a bank or a government office cafeteria usually has about five to six garbage bins to serve hundreds of employees. This is simply not enough. There are some notable negative effects when considering the garbage bins always being full. One of the main effects is the surrounding area starting to smell and be very unpleasant. When the garbage bins are full people put their trash on sides of the garbage bins. When this is done for some time, first it starts to smell bad. So, others who come later tend not to go close and throw their trash in the direction of the garbage bins. If there are any leftover food items, throwing it causes them to spill. This attracts animals like cats, dogs, and flies. And these animals spill them even more. Another negative effect is the diseases that spread. It’s not just the garbage that spread them, but the animals also can be a source.
Existing Problem
Employees heading for their workstations every morning. For all those people, there are just not enough garbage bins available. On the streets of urban cities, hundreds of people are Passing the same location around one minute.
The obvious solution to this is for the cleaning staff to stay near garbage bins every day till they fill up to clean them. This is not a real solution.
There are some notable negative effects when considering the garbage bins always being full. One of the main effects is the surrounding area starting to smell and be very unpleasant. When
The garbage bins are full people put their trash on sides of the garbage bins.
Proposed Solution
The proposed system overview for this system. Solid waste management can be broadly categorized as segregation, collection, and transportation.
The server will collect the data and store them in a database. This data will be analyzed and displayed on two different dashboards that can be accessed by the workforce and clients.
Using data analytics, reports will be generated which can be monitored by the admins through the admin dashboard.
Based on the data collected, garbage trucks can be given routes generated through various algorithms and Google maps API to efficiently route through all necessary garbage bins and finally reach the dumping site
Actors And Process
In the current system people have no idea about the location of the garbage truck so they couldn’t manage their time properly to dumb garbage so they have to dispose them to the nearest garbage bins which are almost fully occupied or they dumb garbage on the roads which will cause many environmental and health issues.
⦁ In our proposed solution user can search and locate the garbage truck on a certain route so they can act according to that to save their time and dispose garbage in a proper way.
⦁ The garbage collecting dates of a garbage truck will be updated in the application.
⦁ Admin can register users and truck drivers track details and view details
⦁ The location of the trucks will be automatically updated to the application through drivers mobile device
⦁ Then the drivers will dispose the garbage
User UI And Funtions
⦁ User can view trash bins and send complaints and status of the bins.
⦁ Also he can edit his profile.
Driver UI and Functions
⦁ Driver can edit his profile and select routes to trash bins.
Admin
⦁ Admin can add users and drivers.
⦁ Admin can add/remove trash bins and watch their status.
Conclution
It is apparent that the improper management of disposing garbage has caused lot of unhealthy and harmful impact on the society. Also this is an uprising major conflict and the situation is getting worse day by day.
Our project is aimed at making this situation compromise to some extend in a way of cost effective and user friendly thus increasing its adoption.
With the waste management system be handled properly. The following conclusions can be reduced from the development of the project.
⦁ Wastage of time and money.
⦁ Environment pollution.
⦁ Improper collection and disposal of garbage
Future Enhancements
This web site and android apps avoid the unproper maintanence of garbage bins of certain areas and makes proper and well maintained wastage management around sri lanka.
Future developers can add following enhancements to the system in future.
⦁ Can automate the bin capacity by fixing sensors and getting signals to update the server
⦁ Tracking drivers location will be very useful.
References
⦁https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/waste-management-and-waste-disposal- methods.php
⦁https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341830497_Waste_Management_in_Sri_Lanka_Challenges_and_Opportunities
