Household garbage sorting and recycling has become a hot topic in Shanghai because of China's first compulsive garbage-separation law every household and institution shall classify waste into four (category). Those who fail to sort garbage may (fine) up to 200 yuan.
Previously, everything went into one bin, so this change has made many people very (worry), who said they were struggling to master the details quickly.
Now thanks to the efforts of number of young programmers, discovering the proper classification for each piece of household waste has become as simple as taking a photo calling someone using your smartphone.
They have applied speech and image recognition technologies apps and other smartphone services to guide Shanghai residents through the garbage-separation rules.
Most of the apps and services, which (begin) springing up last month in app stores, on messaging tool WeChat and mobile payment service Alipay, allow users to type in the name of waste (identify) which category it belongs to. Many apps also use speech and image recognition to make the process much easier, but their creators say they will disappear in time with the Chinese (become) more accustomed to the rules.
