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Abstract : Waste Management has become a difficult task for Municipal Co-operation. It is observed that the practice of trash collection is quite inefficient and ineffective in most of the areas in India. This is due to the size of population, economical drawbacks and majorly because of the lack of feedback mechanisms. A proper well-designed system that monitors the filling of bins in a community will make the work easier for the trash collecting personnel. In this paper, a prototype of a Smart Bin Monitoring System is implemented with the help of ZigBee connectivity in a Star network, NodeMCU, Arduino UNO microcontroller and the weight and distance sensors. The software side of the project, is based on the waste fill status of each bin, an algorithm for optimized path is developed using MATLAB GUI. Also, the bin values and the monitored parameters are made accessible to the households and waste collectors via an APP developed using the MIT App Inventor.