How AI can improve waste management forecasting (IMAGE)

University of Johannesburg

How AI can improve waste management forecasting

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Growing cities tend to run out of land for waste management and new landfill sites. Machine learning can help city managers create more powerful long-term forecasts of solid waste volumes and landfill requirements, even with missing or inaccurate data, researchers from the University of Johannesburg have shown.

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Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg

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