Solid waste production and management in urban centre: An innovative approach

Abstract

Solid urban waste management is a problem of increasing difficulty in the context of planning and can generate a serious threat to urban environment. This work aims to implement a KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) analysis performed with Data Mining Tools able to find some relationships between quantity and quality of produced waste and different characteristics of population, that can be useful to help public and private waste managers to individualize to the best the educational actions previously quoted and specifically focused on every category of population.