Reduction of Carbon Emission and Work Hours for Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Transportation Operations using Information and Communication Technology

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  • 情報通信技術を活用した一般廃棄物の効率的な収集運搬

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Many city governments are experiencing a shortage of workers in the fields of municipal solid waste collection and transportation operations. Extreme efficiency within the waste management field is required for both the collection and transportation phases. In addition, the goal of all decarbonization efforts must be to achieve “Carbon Neutrality by 2050”. Recently, using ICT such as IoT, AI, and sensing technologies has become prevalent for decarbonatization in various fields, including the waste management field. In this study, driving data from vehicles used in waste collection/transportation operations in urban and rural regions was collected using digital tachographs. We then developed methodologies to improve the efficiency of waste collection and transportation operations while also reducing CO2 emissions with the use of this data. We actually test drove both current and improved routes which verifies an improvement in the efficiency of operations and CO2 emission reductions. In light of our results, we were able to construct waste collection and transportation management models which correspond to the characteristics of a wide variety of regions. We believe this model could be proposed for bringing greater energy efficiency and decarbonization measures into the waste management sector.

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