Taking the Waste Out of Recycling
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English - January 31, 2022 03:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTechnology Government "smart cities" technology entrepreneurship innovation govtech urban tech iot startup city social impact Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Increasing Trash Sorting Accuracy to 92%
As stated by the World Bank, in 2011, world cities generated about 1.3 billion tons of solid waste. This volume is expected to increase to 2.2 billion tones by 2025. Bin-e is a smart-bin, IOT device which sorts and compresses recyclables automatically. To do this, it combines unique AI-based object recognition, fill level control and data processing to make waste management convenient and efficient.