Technology should make life better, not more complicated

In the primitive old days before technology, I used to dispose of my daily coffee cup by throwing it in a trash can. But, there has been progress on this front. China Daily has installed a high-tech trash disposal machine, maybe it should be called a robot, where we can throw our coffee cups. It's about the size of a large washer-dryer combo and, I guess, has some kind of artificial intelligence routine for sorting different kinds of trash for recycling.

The problem is that I can't figure out how to open it. There is a tablet-sized screen that shows where to download a mobile phone app that you can use to control the machine. My Chinese reading skills aren't great, so it would take me a long time to decipher all the commands. I'm trying to cut back on coffee, but any cups I do use are now tossed into the trash bin in the bathroom.

But, even if it were in English, I don't see the advantage. Before using the device, I would have to download one more app onto my phone. In the lucky event that goes smoothly, then I would have to learn the app's user interface. More important, I would have to use limited available space in my brain to try to remember how to do that each time I want to use it.