Prediction of Municipal Waste Generation in Poland Using Neural Network Modeling

Monika Kulisz and Justyna Kujawska
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Monika Kulisz: Management Faculty, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
Justyna Kujawska: Environmental Engineering Faculty, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: Planning is a crucial component of short- and long-term municipal waste management. Establishing the relationships between the factors that determine the amount of waste generated by municipalities and forecasting the waste management needs plays a fundamental role in the development of effective planning strategies and implementation of sustainable development. Artificial Neural Network employed for verifying the forecasts pertaining to the amount of rainfall in Poland were presented in the studies. The proposed models included selected explanatory indices in order to reflect the impact of social, demographic and economic factors on the amount of generated waste. Mean squared error ( MSE ) and regression value ( R ) are used as indices of efficiency of the developed models. The ANN models exhibited high accuracy of forecasts at high R values ( R = 0.914, R = 0.989) and low MSE values. Derived from the socioeconomic data for 2003–2019, the model predicts that the future waste generation in 2024 will increase by 2%. The results indicate that the employed ANN models are effective in predicting the amount of waste and can be considered a cost-effective approach to planning integrated waste management systems.

Keywords: waste generation; environment; artificial neural network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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