The future of waste management in smart and sustainable cities: A review and concept paper.
By Behzad Esmaeilian, Ben Wang, K. Lewis, Fábio Duarte, Carlo Ratti, S. Behdad. 2018
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The potential of smart cities in remediating environmental problems in general and waste management, in particular, is an important question that needs to be investigated in academic research. Built on an integrative review of the literature, this study offers insights into the potential of smart cities and connected communities in facilitating waste management efforts. Shortcomings of existing waste management practices are highlighted and a conceptual framework for a centralized waste management system is proposed, where three interconnected elements are discussed: (1) an infrastructure for proper collection of product lifecycle data to facilitate full visibility throughout the entire lifespan of a product, (2) a set of new business models relied on product lifecycle data to prevent waste generation, and (3) an intelligent sensor-based infrastructure for proper upstream waste separation and on-time collection. The proposed framework highlights the value of product lifecycle data in reducing waste and enhancing waste recovery and the need for connecting waste management practices to the whole product life-cycle. An example of the use of tracking and data sharing technologies for investigating the waste management issues has been discussed. Finally, the success factors for implementing the proposed framework and some thoughts on future research directions have been discussed.
Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Media Technology
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Citations in the corpus
- A survey of data fusion in smart city applications (2019, background): “An example of such effort could be found in [23], where they have proposed three new aspects of a smart waste management system such as: (1) infrastructure to overlook the overall life cycle of the product, (2) new business models revolving the product life cycle for preventing any waste…”
- Barriers to smart waste management for a circular economy in China (2019, background): “Esmaeilian et al. (2018) Recently, geographic information systems (GIS) and dynamic scheduling with robust algorithms have also been integrated into the decision support systems.”
- Assessing relations between Circular Economy and Industry 4.0: a systematic literature review (2019, background): “Regarding the IoT, the intent is to adopt it to enable new waste management strategies in smart cities (Esmaeilian et al. 2018), creating collaborative networks (Romero and Molina 2012; Romero and Noran 2017) or improving the circularity level of metallurgical processes (Reuter, Matusewicz, and van…”