When I was much younger, I remember vividly seeing a peculiar mountain each time I traversed a route on the outskirts of Gurgaon. The weird thing about this mountain was that it seemed to get bigger and bigger each time I took the route. One day when I asked my mother about how this was happening, she told me that this is not a mountain - but a landfill created from our city’s waste. This was the very same Bhandwari landfill that today stands at 38 meters tall, spread across 33 acres of land. When I talk about a “Solar AI Waste-sorting Trashbin”, people often feel it's a bit extra to put a microcontroller and a battery in a dustbin, but this confusion is truly because we aren’t aware of the major waste management crisis that we face today. In the summer of 2022, I attended two summer programs - the Brown Solar Energy & Engineering Pre-college program and the Inspirit AI program. At Brown, as I sat eating my lunch in the cafeteria - I saw that in a hurry students were chucking their trash into any of the dustbins present. As I dug deeper, I found that improper waste sorting is one of the causes of such huge landfills. To automate this waste-sorting process, I created SAWT.