About this deal
Smart bins can lead the shift towards a more sustainable future and improve operational efficiency, but they are currently only suited to serve busy areas with high pedestrian traffic. Creating meaningful change in the waste industry takes time. Contamination is when waste materials end up in the wrong place. This often happens with coffee cups. Coffee cups are lined with a waxy coating that ensures your drink doesn’t ooze out five minutes into your morning commute. Many well-intended people dispose of these cups in recycling bins. But coffee cups aren’t recyclable. They thus contaminate the bag of recyclables, as the entire bag can’t go to a recycling plant. While smart bins offer some effective ways to improve the collection and disposal of waste, many challenges are still rife. The disadvantages of smart bin waste management include: A solar-powered compactor – Works as a source of energy to compress the bin’s contents, enabling it to hold up to eight times more waste and reduce collection frequency. French startup Smartup Cities develops smart bin and container fill-level monitoring solutions, based on ultrasonic sensors. Thereby they provide complete remote visibility over any type of containers and help plan the collecting routes accordingly. Ecube Labs – Solar Powered Trash Compactor
South Korean startup Ecube Labs develops CleanCUBE – a waste bin with solar-powered waste compaction, which can hold up to 8 times more waste compared to non-compacting bins. The built-in safety sensor detects motion and stops waste compaction when it detects a hand or finger while also reducing the frequency of collection. The information is relayed to their cloud and analytics platform CleanCityNetworks for analysis. Smartsensor – Temperature Sensors
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Smart bins propose a direct benefit to local communities on top of relieving the nation’s already struggling landfills. Fewer bins on the streets The UK population has grown year-on-year since 1982 . This means more consumption, resulting in greater levels of rubbish and recycling to manage and collect. Overcrowded bins, high-traffic areas with no waste containers, and poor recycling practices contribute to inefficient waste management. No overflowing bins, significantly improving public hygiene (no unpleasant smells, attracting pests, etc.). In the last 100 years, the way we dispose of our waste has not changed. But now that waste is at an all-time high, it’s time that we use modern solutions to manage our waste. That’s where Smartbin.io comes in.
Smart bins can be a real asset to busy city centres and other high-traffic areas by offering the following benefits:The rapid rise in our global population has not made the waste industry any smaller. More people means more consumption, which means there’s more waste to deal with. As long as our consumption habits persist, cities and businesses can expect waste management to become a bigger and bigger problem — unless we start using technology to improve our waste management systems. This will not only make private waste management more environmentally friendly, but will also save customers a lot of money when their biggest waste-generating habits are identified and solutions are put into action. Are smart bins the future of waste management? Research with facilities management teams shows that, when it comes to waste and recycling, they strongly prioritize waste diversion. At the end of each year, facilities receive a waste diversion score based on how well they manage their waste/recycling. The idea is to divert as much waste from landfills as possible. The “National Sword” policy also banned the import of contaminated trash. This policy poked holes in waste management systems across the globe. Within a matter of days, recycling facilities and landfills reached capacity. Smart rubbish bins were first used in the UK in 2011, with many local authorities rolling them out on a trial basis to clean up their communities. Several villages in the Derbyshire Dales, including Flagg and Hathersage, are among those that received the new hi-tech bins.
Even though smart bins are only just starting to be rolled out, data captured from the ones that are up and running are already proving invaluable. It’s not only data that makes smart bins more efficient, many are also fitted with compactors that run off solar power. If we can give businesses and cities the tools and insight that will enable them to be better at recycling, the resulting effects down the supply chain will alleviate most of these costs. If every bag of recycling generated by our customers was uncontaminated, recycling management would require less sorting, lowering the price of recycled plastic bales. Built-in display panel – An integrated screen for displaying personalised content, eye-catching promotions, and educational content around waste and recycling.By bringing data to the root of how we manage our waste and recycling we give life to a supply chain full of transparency and accountability. Only data can help deliver answers to the questions around our supply chain. The future is bright and it may give life to a new city where every building reports transparently and with confidence on their waste and recycling generation with zero contamination! Even though smart bins are far from finished, they were trialled on Sutton High Street in 2019 with impressive results. Twenty-one standard litter bins were replaced with 10 ‘compactor smart bins’, leading to a 90% reduction in collections and over 43,000 litres of waste collected in the first four weeks. Enter smart bins: intelligent waste management systems that use the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect data and maximise space for public rubbish.