IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v18y2021i2p752-d481808.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Variables Influencing per Capita Production, Separate Collection, and Costs of Municipal Solid Waste in the Apulia Region (Italy): An Experience of Deep Learning

Author

Listed:
  • Fabrizio Fasano

    (Regione Puglia—Sezione Ciclo Rifiuti e Bonifiche, 70125 Bari, Italy)

  • Anna Sabrina Addante

    (Regione Puglia—Sezione Ciclo Rifiuti e Bonifiche, 70125 Bari, Italy)

  • Barbara Valenzano

    (Regione Puglia—Dipartimento Mobilità, Qualità Urbana, Opere Pubbliche e Paesaggio, 70125 Bari, Italy)

  • Giovanni Scannicchio

    (Regione Puglia—Sezione Ciclo Rifiuti e Bonifiche, 70125 Bari, Italy)

Abstract

Municipal solid waste (MSW) must be managed to reduce its impact on environmental matrices and population health as much as possible. In particular, the variables that influence the production, separate waste collection, and costs of MSW must be understood. Although many studies have shown that such factors are specific to an area, the awareness of these factors has created opportunities to implement operations to enable more effective and efficient MSW management services, and to specifically respond to the variables that have the most impact. The deep learning approaches used in this study are effective in achieving this goal and can be used in any other territorial context to ensure that the organizations that deal with these issues are more aware and create useful plans to promote the circular economy. Our findings indicate the important influence of number of rooms in a residential buildings and construction years on MSW production, the combination of services such as municipal collection centers and door-to-door service for separate MSW collection and the characteristics of the residential buildings in the municipalities on MSW management costs.

Suggested Citation

  • Fabrizio Fasano & Anna Sabrina Addante & Barbara Valenzano & Giovanni Scannicchio, 2021. "Variables Influencing per Capita Production, Separate Collection, and Costs of Municipal Solid Waste in the Apulia Region (Italy): An Experience of Deep Learning," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(2), pages 1-22, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:2:p:752-:d:481808
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/2/752/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/2/752/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Osvalda De Giglio & Francesco Triggiano & Francesca Apollonio & Giusy Diella & Fabrizio Fasano & Pasquale Stefanizzi & Marco Lopuzzo & Silvia Brigida & Carla Calia & Chrysovalentinos Pousis & Angelo M, 2021. "Potential Use of Untreated Wastewater for Assessing COVID-19 Trends in Southern Italy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-14, September.
    2. Sabbir Ahmed & Sameera Mubarak & Jia Tina Du & Santoso Wibowo, 2022. "Forecasting the Status of Municipal Waste in Smart Bins Using Deep Learning," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-15, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:2:p:752-:d:481808. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.