Due to continuous developments, the exhausting and unpleasant work done by humans is going to be partly or totally replaced by automated devices. Such developments can be found in the field of transport concerning autonomous and networked vehicles. Although we are at a quite early stage of development, it is highly practical to make plans for a more distant future, i.e. targeting a totally automated selective waste gathering. Apart from the application of smart containers, this study presents alternatives for networked automated selective waste gathering.