The consumption of bottled water is ever increasing. India is amongst top 10 bottled water consumers. Thus, tremendous plastic waste is generated every day at public places like railway stations.
This plastic waste is segregated manually which is quite erroneous. Impurities in the segregated plastic creates major problems for the recyclers. 1 PVC bottle in a batch of 1000 PET (type of plastic polymer) bottles can ruin the entire melt. Current technology for segregating plastic is very costly. Moreover, this plastic waste consumes tremendous volume during transportation, increasing transportation cost and so the carbon emission.
We have a designed a machine which will detect the type of plastic bottle and segregate it accordingly, and will also crush this bottle. Thus, our machine will segregate the bottles at source and also reduce volume of the waste.
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ABOUT THE ENTRANT
- Name:Yashanshu Jain
- Type of entry:individual
- Yashanshu's favorite design and analysis tools:Solid work, Comsol
- Yashanshu's hobbies and activities:Entrepreneurship,Reading,Badminton,Studentstartups
- Yashanshu belongs to these online communities:facebook, instagram
- Yashanshu is inspired by:Me:- "The requirement of true engineers in our society to tackle the social problems. The demand of the thinkers and innovators who can still simplify the processes and designs which people have thought that cant be simplified." That inspires me and my designs.
- Software used for this entry:Solid works
- Patent status:none