Smart waste management is an important aspect in the development of smart cities (together with the management of water, energy, and traffic resources), increasingly widespread in all regions to support the growth of a solid market, with the reference industry involving the operators of the different management phases: collection, transport, disposal, and recycling.
IoT and smart solutions for a new approach
Although there are no systems that can solve the problem immediately, there are intelligent ideas and solutions that, in the future, can help municipalities and PAs to operate optimized waste management and to respond to precise separate collection objectives.
Connected bins and smart bins are the smart solutions for waste logistics management. It is one of the most important parts of smart waste management. Smart devices are used at disposal and recycling plants, cloud systems for the collection and processing of wastes and further operations. The digital revolution is also destined to change the waste management service, a crucial area for a smart city that aims to be sustainable and efficient, as well as digital.
Smart city technologies in waste management
According to a recent study, there are 5 digital transformations related to the use of new technologies in shrewd urban areas or smart cities that are bound to set out new open doors for the waste recuperation and reusing area:
- The use of waste tracking systems, for example through RFID frameworks and IoT sensors monitor the level of filling of bins, the volume of materials, and the amounts of paper, glass, plastic, and more that are being reused.
- The adoption of smart waste management solutions
- Based on servitization (XaaS), they develop an innovative business model.
- The focus is on the consumer and his customer experience to build a close and interactive relationship with its citizens and involve them more actively in the process of collection, recycling, and waste management.
- The adoption of customized tools and funds to push the demand for data analysis, Internet of Things technologies, and the use of cloud computing.
Also according to the market analysis company, the aforementioned innovations, from the "connected" bin to smart waste, could generate 3.6 billion dollars in turnover. These changes will be driven by the development of the Internet of Things and circular economy and smart city models.
Waste Sorting
Are you wondering what separate waste collection is but above all how it works? The separate collection of waste is the selection and separation of materials made for subsequent recycling to produce less and less for the benefit of the environment: this is why it is important.
Every municipality now gives precise indications to citizens on how to deliver waste correctly, or the scrupulous division of wet/organic, glass, aluminum, plastic, paper. Some small rules may change depending on the municipality of residence, but there are behaviours and errors that you can standardize.
Learn waste sorting for smart waste management
Waste sorting may vary slightly in the delivery of some materials; a typical case is the napkins used during meals. However, there are general rules that always apply to understand how to do the separate collection. Surely all the materials must be delivered correctly because if the employees notice some material that has been inserted incorrectly the bag is not collected (and the residents fined). It is, therefore, necessary to respect the times and days established by the Municipality in the dedicated containers or bags.
- In the plastic, bottles of detergent and personal hygiene products must be collected, but also ice cream and packaging trays, yogurt jars, and egg trays.
- Newspapers, notebooks, magazines, bread paper, gift paper (taking care that it is not plasticized), cardboard boxes of the pulp (taking care to remove any plastic films often present), cereal cartons and generally all cellulose-based packaging should be inserted into the paper.
- In the wet (also called "organic") all food waste must be conferred, so skins, leftovers, coffee grounds, eggshells, and paper napkins (but you have to make sure that this last rule applies in your municipality, it may be necessary to put them in the undifferentiated). In the glass go glass bottles and jars (clean).
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