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There is growing concern regarding waste management in recent years, especially as urbanization trends continue to climb, which proves to further exacerbate already challenged systems. Poor waste management poses a great threat to human health and the environment and is economically disadvantageous for municipalities worldwide. This chapter investigates how IoT techniques are applied to tackle various waste management obstacles. This chapter covers IoT applications in the field of waste collection, waste sorting, and wastewater. Currently, waste collection systems operate on collection schedules that do not always reflect waste recovery needs, resulting in inefficient systems that unnecessarily exhaust time, labor, and financial resources. In terms of waste sorting, practices typically rely on manual separation that exposes workers to unsafe work environments. Using the sensory and connectivity capabilities of IoT, several IoT-based smart bins focused on waste bin monitoring and waste separation have been proposed to optimize current collection and sorting systems, respectively, through automation. Similarly, as an approach to tackle wastewater challenges, IoT schemes that offer wastewater monitoring have been proposed. In the future, IoT will have a great potential to solve various challenging waste management concerns.
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Shafi, Q., Elkamel, A., Shareefdeen, Z. (2022). Application of Internet of Things (IoT) in Waste Management. In: Shareefdeen, Z. (eds) Hazardous Waste Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95262-4_12
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