Determination of waste type for sorting

The article highlights the problem of waste sorting that is relevant to modern society. The reasons for the need to sort waste, the problems faced by Ukrainians at the beginning of this initiative, and ways to solve them are described in this work. One of the ways of solving the problem is the implementation of the mobile application. The features of the implementation of this application, description of the technologies used for implementation and development methodologies were highlighted as well as plans for future the development of the functionality of the application. The analogues of mobile applications for waste sorting in Ukraine and in the world were examined and described.