The commercial and Industrial sectors (i.e. offices) produced 19% of the total waste generated in the UK in 2018. A lot of the waste from offices is paper which suffers from contamination caused by single-stream recycling. Source-separated recycling involves separating the recycling materials during collection, which produces more useful recyclable materials but is more challenging to implement due to the lower convenience of the system for users, resulting in a lower participation rate. This project aims to implement a fleet of robot bins and a web dashboard to provide the benefits of source-separated recycling with the convenience of having a bin under the desk. A highly interactive system has been created by using Open-RMF as a fleet management system combined with Elixir for the web dashboard. This system allows users to create an account on the website and send requests to the bin fleet
with their current position when they want recycling picked up. Administrators have a unique role on the website that allows them to monitor the state of the fleet, the robot’s position and each request that comes in from users.
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