DOT Desk: The grand finale of Banglalink Ennovators 3.0, held on November 2, 2019, selected three best ideas for a smart city and digital business solutions, reports The Daily Star.
Rafid Zaman Khan and Rafsan Yead Prottoy from Dhaka University, along with Antara Raisa Khan and Tasmiah Rahman from Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), formed Team Last Minute, the first runners-up of the competition. They came up with a smart solution to tackle Dhaka’s waste management problems.
As Dhaka is faced with the lack of a proper system and inefficient workforce when it comes to waste management, Team Last Minute introduced the idea of the ‘Smart Bin’, an AI-based technology installed in garbage cans to sort out different kinds of waste. Organic, chemical and non-organic waste can be recycled or reused. To that end, the team plans to group the different kinds of waste and sell them to different industries for recycling.