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The amount of Solid waste that is being produced through our everyday activities is huge and is getting unmanageable day by day. This is mainly due to increasingpopulationleadingtohaphazarddumpingand increasing transportation costs with already few cost- effectivemethodstotreatthesolidwaste.Accordingtoan increasing transportation costs with already few cost- effectivemethodstotreatthesolidwaste.Accordingtoan estimate in 2016, 277 million tons of solid waste is produced by India every year. It is also projected to increaseto387milliontonsby2030and543milliontons by 2050. The very first method involved in the Solid Waste Management is sorting of waste which simplifies the further procedure as to what to do with the waste i.e., should it be treated thermally, biologically or dumped. Improper segregation of solid waste and segregation at secondary levels of waste management is only going to delay the wastemanagementprocessandsometimeseven lead to inappropriate dumping. This project suggests a way to deal with segregation process so as to make the wholesolidwastemanagementeasierandmoreefficient. AutomaticWasteSegregationsystemprovidesapractical segregation process of solid waste into metal waste, dry waste and wet waste at the primary level right where the wasteisbeinggenerated.AnAutomaticWasteSegregator with simpler mechanism than that of previous models is designedandadetailedmethodologyoftheworkingofthe segregationprocessisprovided.Selectionof therequired equipment has been mentioned. This project aims at segregating the waste produced at the primary level and reducing the burden at secondary levels and cost of transportation of the waste. The results obtained after testing the Automatic Waste Segregator with wastes proved to be functional and can be comfortably relied upon to segregate the wastes.