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Transit and Transport : Monitoring and Validating the Transport of Waste

2013-01, Krause, Michael, Russell, Sean E., O'Grady, Michael J., O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.), Ziolkowski, Bartosz, Diamond, Dermot

The illegal disposal of waste is a growing problem in many countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. A weakness with the conventional waste-management cycle concerns the validation and integrity of the transportation process, from collection at industrial premises to delivery at a licenced waste-disposal facility. The Waste Augmentation and Integrated Shipment Tracking (WAIST) an on going project, at CLARITY:Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, focuses on this very problem. WAIST integrates a triptych of sensing technologies in addressing this problem