Blockchain-Enabled Waste Management and Recycling
摘要
Blockchain technology represents an advanced solution to address present-day environmental sustainability alongside accountability problems through trash management. The technology of blockchain enables decentralized unchangeable ledgers through its current use as a force to reshape waste management. This modern strategy enhances waste management operations while raising visibility across the whole process to create beneficial effects on both environment and economic performance. Waste tracking and disposal processes in traditional waste management systems operate in an obscurable manner which results in large potential for inefficiency and scarce management and prevalent fraud. Lifecycle monitoring of waste management starts from trash creation to waste collection functions and recycling operations and ends at waste disposal using blockchain technology that creates a trustworthy and transparent method for documenting these stages. Waste-related information can be tracked in real-time through blockchain transactions because each capture prevents tampering. This chapter shows all the possibilities of using blockchain technology for garbage management. The central goal of this chapter shows how blockchain technology operates within existing waste management operations through smart contracts which enhance recycling visibility. New functions about trash recycling together with circular economic systems were added to the digital product passport through recent modifications. economic system. The current waste management requirements across the globe need innovative approaches to design waste handling systems along with recycling procedures. recycling procedures. The analysis of blockchain occurs specifically for waste management and recycling tactics. This research applies blockchain integration to create improved waste trackers as well as enhance operational efficiency and establish better tracking and accounting functions. Efficient waste tracking occurs via blockchain technology between its initial source all the way to collection events and disposal activities. blockchain technology in waste management. Smart contracts execute modern business transactions which make operating procedures possible. Smart contracts enable the system to supervise interim procedures and compliance with environmental regulations while giving compensation to participants who implement proper waste management practices. The implementation of blockchain for current challenges and emerging technologies will bring powerful benefits toward worldwide environmental targets. Prospective study needs to optimize blockchain frameworks to grow their scalability as well as their capability to connect with Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to boost waste management system operations.