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The use of Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) for less plastic in Dubai

Sarah Obaid Al Shamsi Follow

Plastic pollution is affecting negatively on the environment, it affects trees, animals, marine life, and even humans. One of the most common plastic types is plastic bags, it is widely spread due its special characteristics such as light weigh, and cheap price. In Dubai City, plastic bags are widely used especially in the supermarkets, with the increase in the population of Dubai, the number of plastic bags will increase and the impacts will be more appearance. Dubai City is a leading city in the region for its ability to change and adapt with new strategies that serves the citizen and the environment as a whole. In this project, plastic bags issue in Dubai will be studied and analyzed, beside suggesting a possible solution for this problem. The research will focus on the size of the problem and how it is affecting the environment from different aspects. Moreover, the study will use a descriptive analysis to provide a deep look at the problem. Furthermore, a secondary study will be used to help with supporting the solution. The suggested solution in this study is using reverse vending machines (RVM) in one of the biggest supermarkets in Dubai, which is Union-Coop supermarket. The research focuses on a solution that matches the vision of Dubai, towards utilizing and harnessing the technology to make citizens life easier, and save the environment from misuse of resources.

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Development of Reverse Vending Machine using Recycled Materials and Arduino Microcontroller

2019, International Journal of Engineering Creativity & Innovation

This work is based on the theme of 3Rs which refers to three terms often used when referring to waste, which is promoting Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. With the increasing amount of waste generated and limited landfill space for waste disposal, recycling has now become one of the important approaches to manage waste effectively. The current manual recycling practice in which the user needs to bring the waste in bulk to the recycling center might be a hassle and hence become a discouraging factor for them to recycle. To overcome such an issue, Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) is designed specifically for the recycling concept with a reward feature. The design is expected to aid in accelerating the motivation among Malaysians to recycle their waste and can be one of the frameworks to overcome urban poverty issues by using waste to wealth concept. Basically, the system is implemented with an Arduino microcontroller and several sensors. Once it detects the correct metal for recycling items, users will get an instant reward. This is to motivate repeated use and further raising collection rates.

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Nowadays with the increasing amount of waste generated and limited landfill space for waste disposal, recycling is one of the important approaches to manage the waste effectively. The current manual recycling practice in which the user need to bring the waste in bulk to the recycling center might be hassle and hence become a discouraging factor for them to recycle. To overcome such an issue, in this project an automated recycle bin with a reward feature is proposed that derived from a reverse vending machine (RVM) concept. Basically, the system is implemented in a standard recycle bin provided by local municipal that equipped with microcontroller and collection of sensors. Throughout the process, the sensors responsible to identifying user information, weight the scale and eventually convert the weight to the corresponding points automatically. Once the process completed, the user can claim their points by using RFID point card. All the mentioned process will be controlled by a microcontroller. The system has been implemented in a small scale user testing and the framework shows its effectiveness for handling the whole process. The prototype is expected to aid in accelerating the motivation among Malaysian to recycle their waste, and can be one of the frameworks to overcome urban poverty issue by using waste to wealth concept.

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— Reverse vending machine is a concept or an idea which inculcate the habit of recycling the waste materials. Reverse vending machine will be working by taking recyclable waste into the machine and gives a use full thing as a token of appreciation. The aim of this project is to design and fabricate a reverse vending machine which takes recyclable waste into the machine and displays a token of appreciation. The machine can accept a plastic bottle of 90mm diameter without cap and tin cans can be accepted and crushed and stored. The machine has a capacity of storing 50 plastic bottles and 50 tin cans. There basically two parts, one is the mechanical part and the other is the electronics part. The mechanical part is used to crush the recyclable waste which is kept in the machine so that more plastic and cans can be recycled and stored. The electronics part which consist of sensor and microcontroller, is used to take the correct input and segregate the waste into its respective categories and give a token of appreciation as a LCD display. The whole system is automated by the help of electronics. Combining both parts will give a reverse vending machine. Reverse vending machine will be working by taking recyclable waste into the machine and gives a use full thing as a token of appreciation. With limited resources in the world, we need to start preserving them and put an end to wastage. Being encouraged to recycle through a rewards system.To encourage recycling process we are designing and manufacturing reverse vending machine.

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Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle is a campaign which aims to reduce the production of waste. Industry used plastic bottle and cans to store the beverage. A research was done by University of Georgia, United States and was published by Wall Street Journal stated that Indonesia is the second predicate country which produced and mismanaged plastic waste in the world. This condition shoud be overcome and this research project was intended to develop reverse vending machine (RVM) to sorting waste of beverage containers either plastic bottles or cans as a campaign to reduce the production of waste. This RVM machine uses barcode scanning as the sorting system to determine whether the plastic bottle or can could be recycled or not. In order to check the weight of the beverage container, a load cell sensor is used to check whether the beverage container is empty or not. The machine will receive the container from the conveyor station, check the weight, and finally transfer it to the sorting station. The container will be sorted as cans or plastic bottle by the aid of barcode scanning and compare it to database. Furthermore, the plastic bottle will be sorted as clear or colored plastic bottle. Unrecyclable plastic or can container or any unemptied container will be classified as rejected container and be returned to the user through the outlet passage. The performance testing was done with 12 different types of plastic bottle and can and 10 samples for each type, so there were total 120 items tested and the result showed that the success rate was 94% while the processing time was varying in between 8 to 13 seconds.

World is facing COVID-19 dangerous situation and over 20 M individual have get affected worldwide. Now people has started using individual plastic bottle which has led to increment of plastic waste and creating waste management problem, unknowingly. So, to solve this difficulty, an innovative idea to design a system is used that can store the used bottle of drinks and beverages. It has an ability to store those bottles in predefined individual storage and calculated the amount of money to be returned to the consumer as a reward. The system is based on Arduino, capacitive proximity sensor and motors. The capacitive proximity sensors are mounted on the side of the conveyer belt. Capacitive Proximity sensor and a microcontroller are logically interfaced for controlling the movement of servo motors, counting the number of bottles, calculate the amount of money to be returned. It can store the used bottle in individual storage according to the type of materials and print the amount of money to be returned. The plastic bottle wastage problem can be solved with this design and with rewards many people can be motivated in developing countries like India. This will also support in many government schemes like Smart Cities or Swachch Bharat Abhiyan.

Ludenyo Wangia , George Njoroge Ngure

With rapid urbanization and population growth, waste materials are everyday discarded aimlessly and their accumulation over time has led to a dirty and polluted environment. Despite clean up efforts by government and non-governmental organizations, reckless waste dumping continues to wreck havoc on our environment. This project offers a solution through a network of small-scale waste collection, sorting and processing machines and a universal rewarding system that encourages the society to properly dispose their waste. The system identifies the user where necessary and receives the waste deposited by the user. An array of sensors at the inlet section identify the waste based on its material. The user information and material identity are communicated to the cloud database for user remuneration. The waste is carried along a conveyor belt to a sorting mechanism which redirects it to its material-specific processing section. Waste is either shredded or compressed and then stored prior to collection for recycling. From initial tests on this project, it is clear that the application of this system can aid in nurturing and developing a proper waste disposal culture within our society.

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The management of the abundant amount of used plastic bottle waste is a major concern nowadays, because it is a major contributor to landfills and overburdens waste processing facilities. Once disposed of, plastic can take centuries to break down, hence, recycling not only manages the waste efficiently, but it reduces the environmental impact and creates economic opportunities, as well. An incentive-based Reverse Vending machine (RVM) is an effective way to involve the general public in the management of plastic waste. The existing solutions are either very expensive, from a computation and cost perspective, or they lack the robustness and durability necessary for deployment. In this research, we have developed an incentive-based low-cost RVM for the collection, identification, classification, and sorting of used plastic bottles with the addition of a reward-based user application. The developed RVM includes a low-cost computing device running a lightweight image processing algorith...

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Most human activities generate solid waste, which is an unavoidable byproduct. Solid waste management is critical to reducing waste and improving recycling. Uncollected trash and poor waste disposal have severe health and environmental repercussions. Furthermore, most public trash bins overflow due to inefficient waste management practices. As a result, for an immediate and optimized waste collection operation, a waste classification management and remote monitoring system are required to properly segregate trash and notify relevant authorities about the trash levels of the bins. This paper presents the design and development of a smart trash bin that uses an Arduino microcontroller to segregate recyclable materials, monitor trash levels in bins, and send an SMS alarm to authorities through GSM communication. A 12V battery powers the system, supplemented by a solar panel. The smart trash bin's design is appropriate for proper waste disposal of recyclable materials. It will assist authorities in planning an efficient waste collection strategy. The designed trash bin costs 180 USD, which is comparable and affordable to existing smart trash bins.

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Development of Small-Scale PETE Plastic Bottle Shredder with Electronic Sensor Controls for Cap Separation: Basis for Reverse Vending Machine

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Plastic waste management has long been a problem in the Philippines; recent studies show that plastic wastes in the country end up polluting water bodies due to improper handling and disposal. Plastic bottles, which are commonly made of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE) plastic, are among the main constituents of these plastic wastes. Seeing this existing problem, the proponents conducted this study to provide a new approach to managing plastic bottle waste by using a shredder, which not only reduces the volume of solid waste to maximize storage space but also introduces new methods for plastic recycling. The shredder was paired with electronic control features to separate the caps from its bottles before shredding since they have different plastic compositions. Different sizes of PETE plastic bottles were tested, and results show that 300 to 500 mL bottles have achieved average volume reduction percentages of within 50–65% after shredding. 300–400 mL bottle sizes had high shredding success rate at around 92%, and the cap detection feature has acquired an average accuracy rating of 88%. The results concluded that this project has successfully developed a small-scale PETE plastic bottle shredder applicable for reverse vending machine application.

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