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Waste
Clean Water And Sanitation
Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure
Sustainable Cities And Communities
The global amount of waste produced is steadily rising. With the amount of waste, the importance of an efficient processing of waste grows. Intelligent waste logistic covers the waste chain from the pick-up of the waste at the inhabitants' place to the processing of recycling and destruction. Route optimizations for garbage trucks are part of an intelligent waste system. This can be approached by using smart bins, which are able to report their current state. The solution can also be implemented as an underground waste collection system. To improve the processing of the collected garbage, waste sorting robots can be used.
Reducing operation costs
Reducing GHG emissions
Improving personnel efficiency
Recycling waste
Promoting sustainable disposal of waste
Enhanced data collection
The 7th Environment Action Programme sets the following priority objectives for waste policy in the EU:
(European Comission, 2016)
The importance of sustainable garbage processing is expected to rise in future. Currently, in Western Europe, almost 1.2 kg per day and inhabitant are produced. This amount is quickly rising and will not peak this century without transformational changes in how we use and reuse materials. By 2100, it is estimated that the growing global urban population will be producing three times as much waste as it does today. This level of waste carries serious consequences—physical and fiscal—for cities around the world. Therefore, the impact of intelligent waste logistic is high and steadily increasing. By 2024 the waste to energy market size is estimated at $35.5 billion.
(Yann Glouche and Paul Couderc, 2013; IBM, 2015; Recycling Magazine, 2017)
Ecube Lab offers a system including smart bins that are able to compress the garbage and report the fill-level and a Clean City Network which is a web-based real-time route optimisation for garbage trucks. The truck driver can use a mobile App to be navigated on the optimal route. This system is able to prevent overfilled bins and minimise costs resources and emissions. Due to manufacturer specifications, the implementation of this system can save 80 percent of operational costs in comparison to a conventional garbage collection system.
(Ecub Lab, 2017)
In this system, waste is disposed in bins that connect to an underground pipe system. Waste ends up in a compactor before being stored in containers in a collection station. This technology reduces the need for trucks in the area where waste is generated, prevents overload, improves hygiene, reduces fire hazards and smells. Cities like Barcelona, London, Copenhagen, and Bergen have already implemented such system in some areas of the city.
Smartphone availability for navigation might be helpful, as most of the route optimization tools are based on Apps.
Articles 11 and 191-193 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: combating climate change is an explicit objective of EU environmental policy (European Parliament, 2009).
Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union: sustainable development is an overarching objective for the EU, which is committed to a ‘high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment’ (European Parliament, 2009).
ICT
Waste
Owing to the Sustainability strategy of the city of Ludwigsburg, the municipality aims at optimizing the waste collection routes in the city. As a pilot project the city has installed cameras with inbuilt sensors in the 15 waste bins across the city.
ICT
Waste
"İzmit Çınar Waste" mobile application was designed for İzmit citizens in order to increase the amount and diversity of recyclable wastes which is collected within İzmit borders and to raise awareness about the importance of recycling in waste management as well.
Waste
By promoting the principles of zero waste and encouraging proper waste sorting and recording, the application will help foster a culture of environmental responsibility.
Energy
Waste
The project assesses the city's waste heat sources to potentially integrate them into the district heating system. This includes providing an overview of the industry-specific amount of usable waste heat in Leipzig, to assess the potential for cities with a similar structure.
Waste
ICT
This project aims to develop an innovative, data-led driven approach to waste collection, using route management software with consistent, accurate datasets to allow more efficient routing of waste collection vehicles.
ICT
Water
The city of The Hague helped promote second hand stores through the creation of apps, allowing for increased public access to second hand product information and a reward scheme for purchases.
Mobility
ICT
Waste
Health
Drones (unmanned aerial devices) are increasingly used to deliver services across the world. South Dublin identified this technology as a solution to illegal waste dumping.
Waste
Moving Towards Zero! is a campaign co-created by Go Zero Waste, in collaboration with local governments and other local organisations, with the aim of promoting local business and waste reduction through inclusive gamification.
ICT
Building
Creating the ultimate customer experience for building tenants and building managers by connecting conversational AI with the building’s devices.
Waste
Water
An Intelligent Dissolved Air Flotation (I-DAF) unit was installed in one of Elgin's biggest distilleries in order to process and treat distillery co-products.
Waste
ICT
Mobility
Deployed overhead sensors to digitalise the whole recycling site and created an algorithm that calculates waiting time dependent on the number of cars queuing and the number of cars on the site.
Waste
In the neighbourhood of Oceanhamnen, the traditional sewage pipe was transformed into three sewage pipes in order to separate municipal waste water. One pipe collects food waste, the second black water and the third grey water. Grey water is recovered for cooling before being treated.
Waste
The 'Big Belly Bins' are fitted with waste compactors which ensure they need emptied less often than standard designs. The innovative bins have proved to need emptying 7 times less than standard bin designs. They use wireless technology to alert authorities when they are full.
Mobility
Waste
This measure aimed at reducing goods deliveries and hence creating a more accessible and less congested city.
Building
Construction materials make up 30-40 % of goods moved around modern cities. A centralised logistics depot in Stockholm, using alternative fuel vehicles, can help cut emissions from freight transport drastically.
Waste
Collecting waste statistics is one sub-solution under the Smart Waste Management measure of Grow Smarter project. It is able to provide feedback to end users on their waste segregation habit.
Waste
Within the Grow Smarter project in Stockholm, an automated waste collection system has been implemented in an existing neighborhood. The goal is to enable a cost efficient and smart waste solution for residential areas.
Waste
ICT
An intelligent waste collection system, based on sensor inputs from the underground waste bins and the shafts, is implemented to optimize waste handling and to improve cleanliness and appearance of the historic city center of Reutlingen.
Waste
Fatih Municipality aims to promote source separation of packaging waste, reducing landfill waste, and offering economic incentives. It uses mobile waste collection vehicles and Conversion Cards, targeting a 25% increase in recycling and 15% more recycling workshops, fostering zero waste.
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