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Previous studies have explored robot-based automated recycling methods, but their efficiency is limited by movement speed and detection range, so there is an urgent need to integrate drones into the recycling field to improve construction waste management efficiency. Preliminary investigations have shown that previous construction waste recognition techniques are ineffective when applied to UAVs and also lack a method to accurately convert waste locations in images to actual coordinates. Therefore, this study proposes a new method for autonomously labeling the location of construction waste using UAVs. Using images captured by UAVs, we compiled an image dataset and proposed a high-precision, long-range construction waste recognition algorithm. In addition, we proposed a method to convert the pixel positions of targets to actual positions. Finally, the study verified the effectiveness of the proposed method through experiments. Experimental results demonstrated that the approach proposed in this study enhanced the discernibility of computer vision algorithms towards small targets and high-frequency details within images. In a construction waste localization task using drones, involving high-resolution image recognition, the accuracy and recall were significantly improved by about 2% at speeds of up to 28 fps. 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