Forecasting plastic waste generation and interventions for environmental hazard mitigation

• Main Authors: Fan, Yee Van, Jiang, Peng, Tan, Raymond R., Aviso, Kathleen B., You, Fengqi, Zhao, Xiang, Lee, Chew Tin, Klemes, Jiri Jaromir
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2022
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/103239/1/TanRaymondR2022_ForecastingPlasticWasteGeneration.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/103239/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127330

Plastic waste and its environmental hazards have been attracting public attention as a global sustainability issue. This study builds a neural network model to forecast plastic waste generation of the EU-27 in 2030 and evaluates how the interventions could mitigate the adverse impact of plastic wast...