Development of Plastics Bottle-Waste Sorting System
Nadhifatul Maulidati, Abdul Dwi Nur Cahyo, Djati Wibowo Djamari, Muhamad Rausyan Fikri, Farid Triawan (*)

Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Sampoerna University, Jakarta, Indonesia
*farid.triawan[at]sampoernauniversity.ac.id

Abstract

This work studies the method of sorting plastic bottles-waste. Currently, the recycling treatment for a different type of plastic bottle-wastes is similar although they are made of different plastic material. The disadvantage of the current method is that the produced plastic is an unknown type of plastics. To perform recycling treatment of similar types of plastic bottle-waste, the plastic-bottle waste needs to be sorted based on their material characteristics. We propose a sorting method of the plastic-bottle waste by using a barcode scanner. A database on plastic-bottle waste based on their barcode number, which then categorized their material characteristics, is created. In this paper, the diagram of the sorting process is given.

Keywords: sorting, plastic bottle-waste, recycle, database, system

Topic: Mechanical Engineering