India has a big trash problem. TrashBot is trying to help.

It’s a busy morning at the dry waste collection center in the Basavanagudi area of Bangalore, India. Two men are loading a dump truck with garbage collected from nearby households.

The air is thick with the smell of decomposition, a smell that occurs only in the presence of wet waste – leftover food, rotting fruits and vegetables, and the like. 

So even though the dry waste collection center is supposed to manage only dry waste – such as plastic items, glass