Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Dec 16, 2024
The export ban on plastic waste by China has brought domestic plastic recycling to the forefront of environmental concerns, with sorting being a crucial step in the recycling process. This study assessed the performance of advanced AI models, Mask R-...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Dec 1, 2024
Reducing urban fine particulate matter (PM) concentrations is essential for China to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Identifying the key drivers of PM will enable the development of targeted strategies to reduce PM levels. This stud...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Nov 4, 2024
The escalating volume of decoration and renovation waste (D&RW) amid the rapid urbanization in China has posed significant challenges for the effective recycling of this waste stream, primarily due to the difficulty of accurately assessing its precis...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Oct 24, 2024
Separating copper from iron scrap is a critical operation in metal recycling and achieving this with low cost sensoric equipment like RGB cameras instead of XRF/XRT is becoming increasingly attractive. In this article, the groundwork for creating an ...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Sep 24, 2024
Optimized and automated methods for handling construction and demolition waste (CDW) are crucial for improving the resource recovery process in waste management. Automated waste recognition is a critical step in this process, and it relies on robust ...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Sep 20, 2024
Recleaning phosphate tailings using the low-cost enhanced gravity separation method is beneficial for maximizing the recovery of phosphorus element. A machine learning framework was constructed to predict the target variables of the yield, grade, and...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Sep 16, 2024
The co-firing technology of combustible solid waste (CSW) and coal in the supercritical CO (S-CO) circulating fluidized bed (CFB) can effectively deal with domestic waste, promote social and environmental benefits, improve the coal conversion rate, a...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Sep 14, 2024
In recent years, the rapid accumulation of marine waste not only endangers the ecological environment but also causes seawater pollution. Traditional manual salvage methods often have low efficiency and pose safety risks to human operators, making au...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Sep 10, 2024
The increasing use of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) has led to its post-end-of-life recycling becoming a research focus. Herein, we studied the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of recycled carbon fiber (rCF) during CFRP pyrolysis ...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Aug 30, 2024
Highly efficient industrial sorting lines require fast and reliable classification methods. Various types of sensors are used to measure the features of an object to determine which output class it belongs to. One technique involves the use of an RGB...