This document summarizes an e-waste management project submitted by four students at MES College of Engineering in partial fulfillment of their Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology. The project involves developing an Android application to connect individual users with e-waste collectors for managing the disposal of electronic waste. The application aims to make it easy for users to find nearby e-waste recycling companies and efficiently organize the disposal of their electronic waste.

1. e-WASTE MANAGEMENT
A mini project report
submitted at the end of 6th
semester
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the award of the degree of
Bachelor of Technology
in
Information Technology
(University of Calicut)
by
ALTHAF HUSSAIN KM (MKANEIT005)
AMEERALI MK (MKANEIT006)
NIYAS ABDUL RASHEED (MKANEIT035)
RAHEEMA PP (MKANEIT036)
Department of Information Technology
MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram
(ISO 9001: 2000 Certified Institution, Affiliated to University of Calicut)
Thrikkanapuram PO, Malappuram Dt,
Kerala - 679-573
2015-16

2. Certificate
This is to certify that the mini project report entitled ”e-WASTE MAN-
AGEMENT” is a bonafide record of the work done by ALTHAF HUS-
SAIN KM(MKANEIT005), AMEERALI MK(MKANEIT006), NIYAS
ABDUL RASHEED(MKANEIT035), RAHEEMA PP(MKANEIT036)
under our supervision and guidance. The report has been submitted to the
Department of Information Technology of MES College of Engi-
neering, Kuttipuram in partial fulfillment of the award of the Degree of
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, during the year
2015-16.
Dr. CK RAJU BADHARUDHEEN P
Professor and Head Mini Project Guide
Dept.of Information Technology Assistant Professor, IT Dept.
MES College of Engineering MES College of Engineering

3. ABSTRACT
”e-waste” is a popular, informal name for electronic products nearing the
end of their ”useful life. E-wastes are considered dangerous, as certain com-
ponents of some electronic products contain materials that are hazardous,
depending on their condition and density. Discarded computers, televisions,
VCRs, stereos, copiers, fax machines, electric lamps, cell phones, audio equip-
ment and batteries if improperly disposed can leach lead and other substances
into soil and groundwater. Many of these products can be reused, refur-
bished, or recycled in an environmentally sound manner so that they are less
harmful to the ecosystem.
In our project, we are introducing an android application for e-waste man-
agement process. The main functionality of this android application is for
connecting individual users to e-waste collectors for managing purpose of
electronic wastes. This application for the Android mobile phones makes it
easy for to find the e-waste recycling company in our neighbourhood. This is
an easy way to find which is the closest recycling company and makes it easy
for to organize the disposables efficiently. The application help to eliminate
the disposal of waste in public places, open areas etc.

4. Acknowledgements
First of all we thank god almighty for his blessings that made our mini
project a success.
We are grateful to Dr. V. H Abdul Salam, Principal, MES College
of Engineering, Kuttippuram, for providing the right ambiance to work
on this mini project.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Dr. C.K Raju, Profes-
sor and Head, Department of Information Technology for permitting
us to work on the project and for his guidance, encouragement, support and
care throughout the entire period of our course of study. We are deeply in-
debted to our Project Coordinators Mr. Badharudheen P, Mr. Jiju TD
and Mrs. Shini, Assistant Professors, Department of Information
Technology for their continued support throughout our project.
It is with great pleasure that we express our deep sense of gratitude
to our mini project guide Mr. Badharudheen P, Assistant Professor,
Department of Information Technology for his guidance, supervision,
encouragement and valuable advice in each and every phase of our project.
We would like to thank all other faculty members and the fellow students
of MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram for their warm friendship, sup-
port and help.
Also, we express our hearty thanks to our beloved parents for their love,
encouragement and dedication in shaping our career.
ALTHAF HUSSAIN KM
AMEERALI MK
NIYAS ABDUL RASHEED
RAHEEMA PP

5. Contents
1 INTRODUCTION 7
2 LITERATURE SURVEY 9
2.1 EXISTING SYSYTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.1 e-waste app . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.2 eDebris app (NYC area) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.3 PopScrap Recycling Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.4 T-Mobile Recycle Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.5 iRecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 12
3.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4 SYSTEM DESIGN 13
4.1 CLIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.2 WEB SERVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4 DATABASE DESIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5 IMPLEMENTATION 16
5.1 LANGUAGES USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.1.1 JAVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.1.2 PHP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.2 CODING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.2.1 JAVA CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.2.2 PHP CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6 CONCLUSION 22
7 FUTURE WORK 23
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6. 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 24

7. Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
The prime application of Electronic Waste Management is to ensure that the
harmful components are disposed of safely and the useful components are put
back in to further usage thus reducing the effect of e-waste on environment.
The hazardous content of these materials pose a threat to human health
and environment. Discarded computers, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers,
fax machines, electric lamps, cell phones, audio equipment and batteries if
improperly disposed can leach lead and other substances into soil and ground.
We are introducing an android application for e-waste management process.
This application for the Android mobile phones makes it easy for to find the
e-waste recycling company in our neighbourhood. This is an easy way to
find which is the closest recycling company and makes it easy for to organize
the disposables efficiently. The application help to eliminate the disposal of
waste in public places, open areas etc..
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9. Chapter 2
LITERATURE SURVEY
2.1 EXISTING SYSYTEM
2.1.1 e-waste app
This app is offered by I GOT E-WASTE. This app can be used for free to
locate nearest e-waste recycling centers. In this app no need to use a website
search online and when install this app on the android device, it will do the
job, and can access the e-waste recycling centers.
2.1.2 eDebris app (NYC area)
If we are a resident of NYC area, then can use this app and send a request
to obtain the e-waste recyclers in NYC. eDebris eCyclers are glad to assist
the residents of NYC in disposing the batteries, circuits and gadgets and
also making the planet clean and green by dealing in the right way with the
e-wastes.
2.1.3 PopScrap Recycling Software
This is a state compliant recycling app, and can avail the services of this scrap
buying software if we are a Scrap metal buyer, redemption center, bottle
depot, core buyer, recycling center, redemption center, Ewaste buyer, CVR
buyer, gold-silver or precious metal buyer and if you are dealing with anything
second hand. For to use this app need to pay one time fee for account set up,
monthly subscription fees and hardware costs for once.Then get username
and password on paying the fees, and this information is mandatory to login
to this app.
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10. 2.1.4 T-Mobile Recycle Guide
This app tells all about the recycling centers in UK. The recycling centers
also deal with other wastes like the Christmas trees. This app can share the
details with your friends through this free app and make contribution for
saving the environment.
2.1.5 iRecycle
This app can access more than 1,500,000 recycling centers to recycle more
than 350 materials when travel or when stay at any place using this app.
The required inputs or the zip code and address and can know all about the
recycling centers, like website, address and working hours.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM
Android smart phones attract both the general and commercial users. An-
droid devices have gained massive popularity and have innovated use of mo-
bile technology in the automation of routine task in wireless environment.
Android is a Linux based operating system for mobile devices such as smart-
phones and tablets. Location Based services using Android OS Motivated by
the use of Android mobile OS in Health and other applications, we present
the use of Android Devices in management applications, namely the e-waste
management system .
This app for the Android mobile phones makes it easy for to find the e-waste
recycling centers in our neighborhood. This is an easy way to find which
is the closest recycling center to you and makes it easy for to organize the
disposables efficiently. Considering the promising future of Android market,
it is beneficial and worth to write applications for android that target mob
of people.
The objectives of our proposed system are:
• The objective of this android application is to combine wireless tech-
nology and mobile operating system to electronic waste management
process .
• In this application user can submit the size of quantity(waste), its
amount and small summary(if more than one material).
• To utilize wireless communication and smart phone technology in im-
plementing the e-waste management system.

11. • To make more user interfaces friendly and links the clients to dispose
their e-waste to e-waste collectors.
• The application help to eliminate the disposal of waste in public places,
open areas etc..

12. Chapter 3
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
• Android OS: upto lollipop
• Web server:Apache Tomcat
• Database: mysql
3.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
• Minimum mobile OS andriod mashmallow
• RAM 128 MB
• Flash external 256 MB
• SD :Mini or macro SD
• Chipset : ARM-based
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13. Chapter 4
SYSTEM DESIGN
The system design of e-waste management application consist user and local
collectors. User need to register with this application and then user can
login using username and password. User can submit the summary of their
personal details with address, size of quantity(e-waste), its amount and small
summary(if more than one material) in the android application. User can
choose application for makes it easy for to find the e-waste recycling center in
our neighbourhood. This is an easy way to find which is the closest recycling
center and makes it easy for to organize the disposables efficiently. Collector
gets the notification and details by sms, g-mail. Collector contact user by
their contact numbers or mailing.
The system design consist :
4.1 CLIENT
• register
• login
• view address of collectors
First client has to be done registration. After registration he/she will get
password and user name. User can submit their personal details with a
summary of e-waste. They can choose neighborhood centers according to
their availability.
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14. 4.2 WEB SERVER
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows in-
dividuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World
Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server owned
or leased for use by clients, as well as providing Internet connectivity, typ-
ically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and
connectivity to the Internet for other servers located in their data center,
called colocation, also known as Housing in Latin America or France. The
scope of web hosting services varies greatly. The most basic is web page and
small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Proto-
col (FTP) or a Web interface. The files are usually delivered to the Web ”as
is” or with minimal processing. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer
this service free to subscribers.
4.3 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM
A data flow diagram (DFD) illustrates how data is processed by a system in
terms of inputs and outputs. As its name indicates its focus is on the flow of
information, where data comes from, where it goes and how it gets stored.
There are essentially two different types of notations for data flow diagrams
(Yourdon Coad or Gane Sarson) defining different visual representations for
processes, data stores, data flow and external entities. Yourdon and Coad
type data flow diagrams are usually used for system analysis and design, while
Gane and Sarson type DFDs are more common for visualizing information
systems. Visually, the biggest difference between the two ways of drawing
data flow diagrams is how processes look. In the Yourdon and Coad way,
processes are depicted as circles, while in the Gane and Sarson diagram the
processes are squares with rounded corners.
The data flow diagram of this andriod application is shown in figure 4.1. It
consist of three section user, mobile application and database. User interact
with the mobile application and the information needed are collected from
database.
4.4 DATABASE DESIGN
Database are collection of datas. The figure 4.2 is for user to submitting their
personal details which include name, username, password, g-mail, mobile,
district, type of user. The figure 4.3 shows the e-waste collectors details
which present in the neighborhood districts.

15. Figure 4.1: Data flow diagram.
Figure 4.2: Database for user sign up page.
Figure 4.3: Database for selecting neighborhood e-waste centers.

16. Chapter 5
IMPLEMENTATION
This andriod application is implemented by using languages java and php.
We have made a design of andriod application using Andriod studio. Created
the database with the persons details who are collecting the e-waste. First
constructed user registration interface and login interface, then build sign up
page for submitting personal details.
5.1 LANGUAGES USED
5.1.1 JAVA
Java is an object oriented programming languages introduced by Sun Mi-
crosystems. James Glosing and his team developed Java in 1995. Most of
the syntax in Java is derived from the C and C++ programming languages
but it is simple and easy to use compared to C and C++. Java programs can
be run on any device capable of running the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
and do not need to be recompiled. Currently Java runs about 850 million
computers and 3 billion mobiles worldwide. Java was made free and open
source software in 2006 by Sun Microsystems. The features that makes Java
a powerful and popular programming language are the presence of a compiler
and interpretor, platform independence, object oriented, robust, secure, mul-
tithread and interactive, easily distributed, portable and high performance.
5.1.2 PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but
also used as a general-purpose programming language. Originally created by
Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the PHP reference implementation is now produced
by The PHP Group. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page,but it
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17. now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: HypertextPreprocessor. PHP
code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination
with various web template systems, web content management system and
web frameworks. PHP code is usually processed by a PHP interpreter im-
plemented as a module in the web server or as a Common Gateway Interface
(CGI) executable.
5.2 CODING
5.2.1 JAVA CODE
Java code for initialising fields in andriod are shown in figure 5.1. The fields
are name, username, password, g-mail, mobile, district, type of user.
5.2.2 PHP CODE
PHP code for linking andriod and database of user for sumbitting their per-
sonnel details is shown in figure 5.2.

18. Figure 5.1: Initialising fields in andriod.
Figure 5.2: User details.

19. Figure 5.3: User login

20. Figure 5.4: User detail submission

21. Figure 5.5: Listing locality

22. Chapter 6
CONCLUSION
In this project, we have presented an e-waste management android appli-
cation. E-wastes are considered dangerous, as certain components of some
electronic products contain materials that are hazardous to living beings.
Many of the products can be reused, refurbished, or recycled in an envi-
ronmentally sound manner so that they are less harmful to the ecosystem.
This application links the user and e-waste collectors. The advantage of this
application is for to find the e-waste recycling centers in our neighborhood.
This is an easy way to find which is the closest recycling center to us and
makes it easy for to organize the disposables efficiently. The application help
to eliminate the disposal of waste in public places , open areas etc..This sys-
tem is convenient, effective and easy so that it improves the performance of
e-waste manangement.
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23. Chapter 7
FUTURE WORK
In this application we are providing list and details of collectors according
their locality and availability. The future application of this system can be
undergo more development by linking the user with local collector.
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24. Chapter 8
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://www.mywaste.mobi/AZ-tucson
• http://www.pacebutler.com
• http://www.tucsonaz.gov/es/announcement/environmental/service/waste/mobileapp
• http:// www.ewastekuldeep.com
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronicwaste
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