Development of automatic floating waste collector for waterways/ Rachel Mae E. Avila, Niccolo Machiavelli M. Gapol, Jingmar D. Naypes, Micol Anne V. Pableo, and Cynthia Q. Talisay

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The study, Development of Automatic Floating Waste Collector for Waterways, focuses on the design and fabrication of the water waste-collecting machine that involves removing waste debris from the water body with high consideration to the operator's safety. Seeing the current situation of the city's waterways and estuaries loaded with dumps, pollutants and toxic materials, this project is done with the intention to reduce the pollution on water bodies at the same time, lessen the burden of our estuary warriors by providing them a device they can use to collect the wastes without putting their safety at stake. Since this machine is designed to function with less human intervention, after turning it on, the prototype automatically operates on the water surface and collect the debris by the conveyor belt and dispose them on the net bin. The system is controlled using Arduino Mega to fulfill all the features of the prototype. The prototype can only operate during high tide for better results. The floating waste collector has a capacitive proximity sensor that can detect floating plastic waste. The prototype can detect obstacles that can interfere with the collection using ultrasonic sensor and automatically change its direction to avoid it.