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India is the 3rd largest garbage generator in the world and by 2050 waste is expected to rise to 436 million tons up. Around 64 million tons of solid waste is produced in our country every year, of which less than 20% or only 12 million tons are treated, remaining 52 million tons of waste are remain �untreated� and contaminate land or make it is way into rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Effective waste management is to ensure proper segregation of waste and ensure that the waste goes through the recycling and resource recovery process. Sanitary landfills are the means of disposal for unutilized municipal solid waste from waste processing facilities and other types of inorganic waste that cannot be reused or recycled. Here the problem is solved, by designing an embedded system that will monitor each dumpster automatically by detecting the amount of waste deposited using a robotic arm. Here moisture sensors can be used for segregating wet and dry waste. For detecting the presence of any waste IR sensor is used and for detecting wet or dry waste a moister sensor can be used. In this process, if moisture sensor output is HIGH then the robotic arm moves towards WET dumpster else it moves towards the DRY dumpster. Both the dumpster are embedded with infrared sensors at the top, to measure the level of waste in the dumpsters. If the dumpsters reach their maximum level then an alert message using the GSM module along with buzzer sound is generated