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Waste Sorting Technologies

Waste Sorting Technologies is a systematic approach within waste management that employs mechanical, optical, or artificial intelligence-driven methods to differentiate and categorize post-consumer waste streams according to material composition, contamination level, and recyclability to enable efficient resource recovery and reduce environmental pollution.

182

Publications

7.9K

Citations

606

Authors

256

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

132

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Publications

182

Improving aluminum recycling: A survey of sorting and impurity removal technologies

Gabrielle Gaustad, Elsa Olivetti, Randolph Kirchain · Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2011 · 393 citations

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Smart waste management: A paradigm shift enabled by artificial intelligence

David B. Olawade, Oluwaseun Fapohunda, Ojima Z. Wada et al. · Waste Management Bulletin · 2024 · 275 citations · Full text

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Auto-sorting commonly recovered plastics from waste household appliances and electronics using near-infrared spectroscopy

Xiaoyu Wu, Jia Li, Linpeng Yao et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production · 2019 · 210 citations

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Recycling of construction and demolition waste via a mechanical sorting process

Wen-ling Huang, Dung-Hung Lin, Ni-Bin Chang et al. · Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2002 · 176 citations

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Recyclable waste image recognition based on deep learning

Qiang Zhang, Xujuan Zhang, Xiaojun Mu et al. · Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2021 · 172 citations

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Authors

606

  1. HM
    Helena M. Solo‐Gabriele

    University of Miami, United States

    4 publications · 215 citations

    4

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  2. YZ
    Youcai Zhao

    Tongji University, China

    2 publications · 65 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. TG
    Timothy G. Townsend

    University of Florida, United States

    4 publications · 215 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. RP
    Roland Pomberger

    Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

    3 publications · 57 citations

    3

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  5. AF
    Alexander Feil

    RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    3 publications · 61 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 606

Institutions

256

  1. State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse

    Nanjing, China

    6 h-index

    18 publications

    726 citations

  2. Montanuniversität Leoben

    Leoben, Austria

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    278 citations

  3. Tongji University

    Shanghai, China

    5 h-index

    17 publications

    691 citations

  4. RWTH Aachen University

    Aachen, Germany

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    441 citations

  5. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    497 citations

  6. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

    Tsukuba, Japan

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    300 citations

  7. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Shanghai, China

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    1.5K citations

  8. Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    958 citations

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Venues

  1. Waste Management

    20 publications · 1.2K citations

    19

    h-index

  2. Resources Conservation and Recycling

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

    14

    h-index

  3. 11

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  4. Journal of Cleaner Production

    8 publications · 697 citations

    9

    h-index

  5. Recycling

    4 publications · 224 citations

    4

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