SWaCH
Team-mates : Vivin Thomas Wilson, Sidharth Panicker, Madhu Venkatesh, Sneha G Bhat
INTRODUCTION
link to paper : SWaCH
India’s garbage generation stands at 0.2 to 0.6 kilograms of garbage per head per day. One of the major issues in urban areas is waste disposal. The task of waste disposal is very repetitive, unhygienic and dependent on human labour. The
country’s per capita wastegeneration is so high, that it creates a crisis if the garbage collector doesn’t visit a neighbourhood for a couple of days. Lack of timely waste collection results in a huge pile ofgarbage in the city which in turn leads
to an unhygienic environment.
This prevailing scenario compels the existence of a feasible substitute that can resolve the shortcomings of the current methodology of waste collection. The quest for such an alternative lead to the idea of SWaCH