Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Mar 21, 2021
In the increasingly pressing context of improving recycling, optical technologies present a broad potential to support the adequate sorting of plastics. Nevertheless, the commercially available solutions (for example, employing near-infrared spectros...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Jan 26, 2021
End-of-life vehicles (ELVs) provide a particularly potent source of supply for metals. Hence, the recycling and sorting techniques for ferrous and nonferrous metal scraps from ELVs significantly increase metal resource utilization. However, different...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Jan 2, 2021
Green supply chain (GSC), one of the most vital sub-topics of sustainable development, indicates people provoking on the rationality of business practices and resource consumption patterns. Under the background of economy globalization, developing co...
Chemosphere
Apr 5, 2019
Recycling of industrial wastewater meeting quality standards for agricultural and industrial demands is a viable option. In this study, paper and pulp industrial wastewater were treated with three biological treatments viz. aerobic, anaerobic and seq...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Mar 25, 2019
Recycling of used plastic bottles is an important measure to protect the environment and save energy. Usually, bottles in different colors have different value for recycling. Classification of plastic bottles recycling based on image recognition duri...
Environmental research
Dec 21, 2018
Questions related to the safety of alternative water sources, such as recycled water or reclaimed water (including grey water, produced water, return flows, and recycled wastewater), for produce production have been largely un-explored at the detail ...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Nov 1, 2018
This study proposes a multilayer hybrid deep-learning system (MHS) to automatically sort waste disposed of by individuals in the urban public area. This system deploys a high-resolution camera to capture waste image and sensors to detect other useful...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Oct 11, 2018
In the sense of contemporary industrial challenges, it may be said that many issues in the field of recycling may be analysed. In this paper, the model for choosing locations for construction of recycling centres equipped with new technology is propo...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Mar 2, 2016
In global demand of improvement of electrical and electronic waste management systems, stakeholders look for effective collection systems that generate minimal costs. In this study we propose a novel model for application in mobile collection schemes...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jan 7, 2016
In this paper we demonstrate that fuzzy logic can provide a better tool for predicting recycling behaviour than the customarily used linear regression. To show this, we take a set of empirical data on recycling behaviour (N=664), which we randomly di...