AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities
KEYWORDS
Trash
COUNTRY
France
DESIGNED BY
Tingyun DU
Yuchen QIU
WEBSITE
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2018/project/bing-bin/
Bing bin
A smart trash bin that recognises, sorts and compacts your trash automatically.
Waste sorting at the consumer level is difficult. Bing Bin brings innovation in waste separation by using image recognition technology to identify, compress, and sort waste automatically thus making waste sorting efficient for the users. Bing bin is easy to use. Just place a piece of garbage in the center hole. Bing Bin will take care of the rest. The first version is designed for the beverage room of modern companies. The trash produced in such area is mainly plastic bottles, aluminum cans, paper cups. It uses image recognition technology to determine the type of waste. If the beverage bottle contains liquid, Bing Bin can detect that and will flash a red light. The user should pour out the liquid before dropping it. After recognition, the baffle will open and the rubbish will fall down, be compressed, then be dropped into a loading tray. The tray will turn to the corresponding position and drop the garbage.