Artificial Intelligence Review,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
57(3)
Published: Feb. 15, 2024
Abstract
With
massive
population
growth
and
a
shift
in
the
urban
culture
smart
cities,
constant
generation
of
waste
continues
to
create
unsanitary
living
conditions
for
city
dwellers.
Overflowing
solid
garbage
rapid
non-degradable
produce
slew
infectious
illnesses
that
proliferate
throughout
ecosystem.
Conventional
management
systems
have
proved
be
increasingly
harmful
densely
populated
areas
like
cities.
Also,
such
require
real-time
manual
monitoring
garbage,
high
labor
costs,
maintenance.
Monitoring
on
timely
basis
reducing
costs
is
scarcely
possible,
realistically,
municipal
corporation.
A
Smart
Dustbin
System
(SDS)
proposed
implemented
ensure
hygiene.
This
paper
undertakes
comprehensive
analysis
application
dustbin
systems,
following
an
extensive
literature
review
discussion
recent
research
expected
help
improve
systems.
current
SDS
used
with
most
advances
from
deep
learning,
computer
vision,
Internet
Things.
The
system
day-to-day
life
minimizes
overloading
bins,
lowers
saves
energy
time.
It
also
helps
keep
cities
clean,
lowering
risk
disease
transmission.
primary
users
are
universities,
malls,
high-rise
buildings.
evolution
over
years
various
features
technologies
well
analyzed.
datasets
Waste
Management
benchmark
image
presented
under
AI
perception.
results
existing
works
compared
highlight
potential
limitations
these
works.
Waste Management Bulletin,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
2(2), P. 244 - 263
Published: May 9, 2024
Waste
management
poses
a
pressing
global
challenge,
necessitating
innovative
solutions
for
resource
optimization
and
sustainability.
Traditional
practices
often
prove
insufficient
in
addressing
the
escalating
volume
of
waste
its
environmental
impact.
However,
advent
Artificial
Intelligence
(AI)
technologies
offers
promising
avenues
tackling
complexities
systems.
This
review
provides
comprehensive
examination
AI's
role
management,
encompassing
collection,
sorting,
recycling,
monitoring.
It
delineates
potential
benefits
challenges
associated
with
each
application
while
emphasizing
imperative
improved
data
quality,
privacy
measures,
cost-effectiveness,
ethical
considerations.
Furthermore,
future
prospects
AI
integration
Internet
Things
(IoT),
advancements
machine
learning,
importance
collaborative
frameworks
policy
initiatives
were
discussed.
In
conclusion,
holds
significant
promise
enhancing
practices,
such
as
concerns,
cost
implications
is
paramount.
Through
concerted
efforts
ongoing
research
endeavors,
transformative
can
be
fully
harnessed
to
drive
sustainable
efficient
practices.
Journal of Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
351, P. 119908 - 119908
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
The
construction
industry
generates
a
substantial
volume
of
solid
waste,
often
destinated
for
landfills,
causing
significant
environmental
pollution.
Waste
recycling
is
decisive
in
managing
waste
yet
challenging
due
to
labor-intensive
sorting
processes
and
the
diverse
forms
waste.
Deep
learning
(DL)
models
have
made
remarkable
strides
automating
domestic
recognition
sorting.
However,
application
DL
recognize
derived
from
construction,
renovation,
demolition
(CRD)
activities
remains
limited
context-specific
studies
conducted
previous
research.
This
paper
aims
realistically
capture
complexity
streams
CRD
context.
study
encompasses
collecting
annotating
images
real-world,
uncontrolled
environments.
It
then
evaluates
performance
state-of-the-art
automatically
recognizing
in-the-wild.
Several
pre-trained
networks
are
utilized
perform
effectual
feature
extraction
transfer
during
model
training.
results
demonstrated
that
models,
whether
integrated
with
larger
or
lightweight
backbone
can
composition
in-the-wild
which
useful
automated
outcome
emphasized
applicability
across
various
industrial
domains,
thereby
contributing
resource
recovery
encouraging
management
efforts.
IEEE Access,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12, P. 13809 - 13821
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
In
response
to
the
growing
waste
problem
caused
by
industrialization
and
modernization,
need
for
an
automated
sorting
recycling
system
sustainable
management
has
become
ever
more
pressing.
Deep
learning
made
significant
advancements
in
image
classification,
making
it
ideally
suited
applications.
This
application
depends
on
development
of
a
suitable
deep
model
capable
accurately
categorizing
various
categories
waste.
this
study,
we
present
RWC-Net
(recyclable
classification
network),
novel
designed
six
distinct
using
TrashNet
dataset
2,527
images
The
performance
our
is
subjected
intensive
quantitative
qualitative
evaluations
compared
state-of-art
techniques.
proposed
outperformed
several
state-of-the-art
models
obtaining
remarkable
overall
accuracy
rate
95.01
percent.
addition,
receives
high
F1-scores
each
categories:
97.24%
cardboard,
96.18%
glass,
94%
metal,
95.73%
paper,
93.67%
plastic,
88.55%
litter.
reliability
demonstrated
qualitatively
through
saliency
maps
generated
Score-CAM
(class
activation
mapping)
model,
which
provide
visual
insights
into
its
across
categories.
These
results
highlight
model's
demonstrate
potential
as
effective
solution.
Recycling,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
9(4), P. 59 - 59
Published: July 15, 2024
Plastics
recycling
is
an
important
component
of
the
circular
economy.
In
mechanical
recycling,
recovery
high-quality
plastics
for
subsequent
reprocessing
requires
plastic
waste
to
be
first
sorted
by
type,
color,
and
size.
chemical
certain
types
should
removed
as
they
negatively
affect
process.
Such
sortation
objects
at
Materials
Recovery
Facilities
(MRFs)
relies
increasingly
on
automated
technology.
Critical
any
sorting
proper
identification
type.
Spectroscopy
used
this
end,
augmented
machine
learning
(ML)
artificial
intelligence
(AI).
Recent
developments
in
application
ML/AI
are
highlighted
here,
state
art
presented.
Commercial
equipment
recyclables
identified
from
a
survey
publicly
available
information.
Automated
equipment,
ML/AI-based
sorters,
robotic
sorters
currently
market
evaluated
regarding
their
sensors,
capability
sort
plastics,
primary
application,
throughput,
accuracy.
This
information
reflects
rapid
progress
achieved
plastics.
However,
film,
dark
comprising
multiple
polymers
remains
challenging.
Improvements
and/or
new
solutions
forthcoming.
Resources Conservation and Recycling,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
202, P. 107375 - 107375
Published: Dec. 22, 2023
The
growing
environmental
concerns
have
emerged
the
necessity
of
sustainable
waste
management
construction
and
demolition
(C&D)
wastes.
This
review
explores
advancements
in
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
robotics
to
automate
C&D
sorting.
A
comprehensive
examination
this
domain
is
conducted
by
structuring
paper
around
six
research
questions.
Current
trends
potential
future
directions
are
revealed
performing
methodology
data
analysis
involving
bibliometric
scientometric
studies.
Notably,
recent
emphasises
circular
economy,
AI,
robotics,
underscoring
importance
enhance
AI
for
precise
categorisation.
scarcity
publicly
available
datasets
a
central
challenge
domain,
that
hinders
effective
applications.
However,
augmentation,
synthesis,
generative
transfer
learning
been
identified
as
crucial
techniques
dataset
quality
categorization
accuracy.
While
draws
significant
attention
shows
lack
AI-enabled
systems
due
complex
nature
sorting
collection.
In
summary,
study's
findings
highlight
need
new
methods
integrating
multisensory
fusion,
unsupervised
machine
continuously
learn
adapt
streams
materials,
making
them
highly
efficient
management.
Journal of Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
354, P. 120313 - 120313
Published: Feb. 16, 2024
This
paper
addresses
the
critical
environmental
issue
of
effectively
managing
construction
and
demolition
waste
(CDW),
which
has
seen
a
global
surge
due
to
rapid
urbanization.
With
advent
deep
learning-based
computer
vision,
this
study
focuses
on
improving
intelligent
identification
valuable
recyclables
from
cluttered
heterogeneous
CDW
streams
in
material
recovery
facilities
(MRFs)
by
optimally
leveraging
both
visual
spatial
features
(depth).
A
high-quality
RGB-D
dataset
was
curated
capture
MRF
stream
complexities
often
overlooked
prior
studies,
comprises
over
3500
images
for
each
modality
more
than
160,000
dense
object
instances
diverse
materials
with
high
resource
value.
In
contrast
former
studies
directly
concatenate
RGB
depth
features,
introduces
new
fusion
strategy
that
utilizes
computationally
efficient
convolutional
operations
at
end
conventional
segmentation
architecture
fuse
colour
information.
avoids
cross-modal
interference
maximizes
use
distinct
information
present
two
different
modalities.
Despite
clutter
diversity
objects,
proposed
RGB-DL
achieves
13%
increase
accuracy
36%
reduction
inference
time
when
compared
direct
concatenation
features.
The
findings
emphasize
benefit
incorporating
geometrical
complement
cues.
approach
helps
deal
varied
nature
streams,
enhancing
automated
recognition
improve
MRFs.
This,
turn,
promotes
solid
management
efficiently
concerns.