It has cut the use of food carrier bags by 81% and raised recycling levels from 41%tooverer 90%.
In many European cities, recycling levels are in the region of 50% of domestic waste, with Copenhagen sending a mere 3% of its waste to landfills.
And consider how energy utilities, waste management and factories will be revolutionised by sensors that constantly monitor water usage, recycling levels and assembly lines.
But councils warned they would be hit by the cost of extra bin rounds and re-negotiating waste contracts – and the risk of higher landfill taxes and EU fines if recycling levels fell.
"Greater recycling levels will deliver economic and environmental benefits to Scotland and overall savings to local authorities," he said.
He wants to help centralise the business in the UAE where plastic bottle use is high and recycling levels low.
In addition, the paper explores the impact of uncertainty in decision alternatives by placing a strong emphasis on economic efficiencies and a sensitivity analysis of the results to changes in the data inputs, specifically inflation, recycling levels, and recycling commodity market shifts.
An increase in recycling levels is born out by data collected by the EPA, which found that the percentage of trash recycled by Americans rose from 10percentt in 1980 to 33percentt in 2008.
The poll revealed that UK consumers believe that in five years' time up to 64% of household waste can be recycled, compared with current recycling levels of around 44.3% in England.
But it does not stop the problem of individual councils becoming locked into contracts and failing to raise their own recycling levels.
