Thanks to the recent efforts of today’s youth, and particularly of a few students from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT-Bombay, one rather unique solution to keeping rubbish off the city streets has been put forth. The students have designed and developed a dustbin they’ve called ‘Sustain-o-bin’. It’s equipped with sensors that can detect the proximity of people and automatically wheel itself in the direction of those closest. To further scare the bejeebers out of them, this interactive bin is even designed to request people to use it. Once you’ve used it, it’s also programmed to be polite enough to say ‘Thank you’ and be on it’s merry way. What makes the bin economical as well as eco-friendly is the fact that it’s entirely made up of waste material. The technology consists of three sensors – ultrasonic, infrared and a touch sensor. This ingenious design and development took a total of 12-14 days.

The design team, a group of second-year students of Interaction Design include – Ajay Mittal, Aniket Sarangdhar, Aniruddha Kadam, Mandar Sarnaik, Saurabh Srivastava and Shaswath V.
It’s a great concept and I’d like to wish these guys the very best of luck on any future endeavors. Mumbai’s going to need a lot of those bins considering the state it’s in, but it’s start. Good going!
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Mumbai Mirror]