Advantages and Disadvantages of High-Tech Garbage Bins

Problem Solution Essay:
Influences on High-tech Garbage Bins
ESL 560
Professor Jamila Barton
Tianshu(Pancy) Lu
August 20. 2020
Influences on High-tech Garbage Bins
Introduction:
Trash management is an enormous problem in many areas in the world. This is the reason for placing the garbage bins along with the corners of houses and communities. The trash smells poorly. Moreover, it also becomes a distraction to the community. It happens when garbage is not properly managed by the household and the local government. It is either there is no proper waste management implemented by the government or there is no strict policy that makes the households recycle their waste at home. Nowadays, people lack the awareness of environmental protection and garbage classification. Some people like to litter everywhere, which causes burden and inconvenience to sanitation workers. Sometimes, the overflowing garbage can cause trouble to passers-by as well. Classifying the garbage means putting your plastic wrapper in the right garbage bin which says degradable. People invented high-tech garbage bins to help recycle and sort garbage. They can recycle and treat waste better, and reduce the workload of sanitation workers. These inventions also try to solve the problem of waste management by storing garbage in the most modern way. However, like all technology, these modernized garbage bins must have issues due to its maintenance needs. Managing the garbage properly is already a problem. Garbage problems caused by technological issues is another problem that may inconvenience people later on.
The following are the research questions: 1) Can high-tech garbage bins help people progress, improve environmental awareness, and save energy and beautify the city? and 2) Do high-tech garbage bins bring convenience to people? The primary objective of this research is to compare and contrast the high-tech garbage bin and traditional garbage bin. This paper shall discuss their strengths and weaknesses and their advantages and disadvantages in order to answer the problem statement.
Problems:
The garbage problem has always been one of the concerns of communities. Although there are ordinances that are specifically for waste management, there are places that find it hard to deal with the garbage problem. Some places would solve the problem by burning or burying garbage. This method will remove their waste but it will cause environmental and health problems (Planet Natural, 2019).
In an attempt to solve the garbage problems, modernization and technological advancements are made. These advancements have brought convenient method in collecting and storing garbage ( HYPERLINK "/science/article/pii/S1110062118301375" \l "!" Abdel-Shafya, H. & HYPERLINK "/science/article/pii/S1110062118301375" \l "!" Mansour, M., 2018). However, because some technology are made from machinery and high-maintenance tools, it is bound to break if not well-managed. Maintenance of modern garbage bins would cost people some money which they can give as salary to garbage collectors instead. If the modern bin cannot be fixed, they may have to buy another model which will cost them more money.
Modern garbage bins should be offering convenience in garbage management. It should lighten the work of homeowners as well as sanitary workers. However, with the cost and maintenance of the bins adding to the garbage problems, it may bring inconvenience more than convenience (Ermolaeva, Y., 2019).
Solutions:
Technological advancements in garbage management are bound to solve problems that get in the way of the work. They are known to lift some burden off of the people's shoulders. However, failures and disadvantages may occur because of technicalities. This paper suggests that it is better to manage the garbage manually in two ways: 1) use ordinary garbage bins which do not require so much operation, and 2) label the bins with types of garbage that is usually collected so that it will be easier to recycle them.
Manual garbage management has always been the way before all the technology came to ease the workload. Although this method requires more physical work and organization, it is more precise when it comes to keeping the garbage properly disposed of and stored (Ermolaeva, Y., 2019). The use of ordinary garbage bins will make manual management more convenient than any high-tech garbage storage. Primarily, it is because there will be no need to worry about the condition of the garbage even if it rolls or gets tossed. Ordinary garbage bins are also cheaper than modern ones so it will not be costly to buy several bins for the categorization of garbage.
Labeling garbage bins can be done in different ways. First, you can label two garbage bins with degradable and biodegradable. These will sort out garbage according to their ability to be decomposed or recycled. For a more specific categorization, several bins can be labeled as plastics, bottles, cans, papers, or food. The specification may depend on the kind of garbage that is usually found in your garbage storage (Abdel-Shafya, H. & Mansour, M, M., 2018).
The common problem that people face in using ordinary garbage bins is that it is manually managed. Because people sometimes do not have enough time to spare f...