Automation of Waste Segregation System using PLC

With the growing population rate, the amount of waste being produced is also increasing at a very faster rate. It is also posing a very serious problem at the municipal level to manage the wastes being dumped everywhere as landfill waste. So, it is very crucial to have some system to manage waste automatically which is currently not there. Prime Minister Modi’s mission of Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan can also be successfully implemented by the proposed system. The paper proposes a novel method where the provision is given to separate out wet and dry waste into respective bins by the sensing of different sensors incorporated along the conveyor belt on which initially crushed waste is moving. Pieces of glass, paper, metallic materials, and wet waste are separated out from proposed work. Using the segregated wet waste as the organic manure for growth of plants and recycling of most of the dry components like paper, glass, plastic increases the economic value of the waste to its best. We are using programmable logic controller (PLC) as main component and proposed system is simulated using INDRA WORKS Engineering, which is firmware of BOSCH REXROTH PLC’s.