The Future of Solid Waste Management in Smart Cities

In today's world where everything is getting smarter, cities have started to get smarter. Over the past two decades, "smart cities" have proliferated around the globe as a way to build more efficient and liveable urban environments. In smart cities, environmental management and solid waste management will differ, like all other things. The concept of smart city is not only related to municipal services, but also to monitor and manage many different services such as public services, waste management, houses, buildings, traffic systems, transportation systems, water networks, crime detection systems, hospitals, schools, and libraries. In addition to obtaining data from devices, it also analyzes it by obtaining it from citizens when necessary. It has been the goal of smart cities to develop solutions for Water Management, Waste Management, Green City, Clean Air, Climate Change, Land Management, Protected Areas Management Noiseless and Clean Environment and Environmental Management and to create a sustainable environment and natural resource. Smart cities aim to improve the quality of life of everyone living in the city by taking advantage of the communication and sensor capabilities added to the infrastructures of cities to optimize the electricity, transportation and other logistics processes that support daily life. In this study, waste management, which is a sub-title of the smart environment component within the concept of smart city, and the future vision of waste management within the current targets are emphasized. First, the smart city was described, and then the targets for waste management were focused on in national and international strategy and policy documents. Finally, by giving examples of waste management technology and applications in smart cities, the future that awaits us is tried to be envisioned.