Recyclable Material Images


Click the link below to download the recyclable material dataset that we collected from five sources: TrashNet, Glassense-Vision, TrashBox, Waste Classification Data, and Waste_Pictures. The dataset consists of 12,873 RGB images, each of dimension 150x150 and labeled by one of 4 classes: glass, metal, paper, and plastic. The dataset distribution over the classes are shown in the following table.

Label Count Percentage
Glass 2,833 22.0%
Metal 2,688 20.9%
Paper 3,515 27.3%
Plastic 3,837 29.8%

Download link: Recyclable Material Data

For more details and classification results using CNN, refer to our paper Recycling Material Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks.