Assessing Global Waste Management: Alternatives to Landfilling in Different Waste Streams—A Scoping Review

N Karimi - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This scoping review examines global strategies and enterprises for sustainable solid waste
management, with a focus on alternative landfilling approaches. The study collected and …

The use of Google community mobility reports to model residential waste generation behaviors during and after the COVID-19 lockdown

TS Mahmud, KTW Ng, S Ray, L Lyu, C An - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposed an original analytical approach to quantify waste generation and
recycling behaviors in Regina, a Canadian capital city, using Google's Community Mobility …

Comprehensive evaluation of municipal solid waste power generation and carbon emission potential in Tianjin based on Grey Relation Analysis and Long Short Term …

B Liu, Z Han, J Li, B Yan - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of China's economy, the contradiction of the mismatch between
municipal solid waste disposal capacity and its growth has become increasingly prominent …

Evolution of COVID-19 municipal solid waste disposal behaviors using epidemiology-based periods defined by World Health Organization guidelines

TS Mahmud, KTW Ng, N Karimi, KK Adusei… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to identify the effects of continued COVID-19 transmission on waste
management trends in a Canadian capital city, using pandemic periods defined from …

A cross-jurisdictional comparison on residential waste collection rates during earlier waves of COVID-19

TS Mahmud, KTW Ng, MM Hasan, C An… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
There is currently a lack of studies on residential waste collection during COVID-19 in North
America. SARIMA models were developed to predict residential waste collection rates …

Impacts of nested forward validation techniques on machine learning and regression waste disposal time series models

HL Vu, KTW Ng, A Richter, J Li, SA Hosseinipooya - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Dataset partitioning and validation techniques are required in all artificial neural network
based waste models. However, there is currently no consensual approach on the validation …

Insights into the urban municipal solid waste generation during the COVID-19 pandemic from machine learning analysis

S Wan, M Nik-Bakht, KTW Ng, X Tian, C An… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become an important issue for cities around
the world. Waste generation prediction plays an important role in MSW management. It can …

Modeling of municipal waste disposal behaviors related to meteorological seasons using Recurrent Neural Network LSTM models

KK Adusei, KTW Ng, N Karimi, TS Mahmud… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The literature suggests that long short-term memory (LSTM) paired with recurrent neural
network (RNN) can better express long-and short-term reliance of a data set. The study …

Endogeneity and other problems in curvilinear income-waste response function estimations

N Schneider - Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk …, 2024 - Springer
Socio-ecological theories have long been in search of general principles to characterise
anthropogenic activity-environmental change dynamics. Besides allowing for more flexible …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of construction and demolition waste disposal behaviors during COVID-19 using satellite imagery

S Ray, KTW Ng, TS Mahmud, A Richter… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted conventional municipal solid waste (MSW) management
practices and affected waste generation rates. While MSW streams have been extensively …