Investigating the Applicability of Blockchain Technology and Ontology in Plastics Recycling by the Adoption of ZERO Plas
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Investigating the Applicability of Blockchain Technology and Ontology in Plastics Recycling by the Adoption of ZERO Plastic Model R. Sandhiya 1
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Seeram Ramakrishna 2
Received: 12 October 2020 / Revised: 8 November 2020 / Accepted: 19 November 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract As the plastic industries aim at minimizing the environmental impact caused by mass production, growing consumption and relatively short utility span of materials and products related to plastics, they focus on circular economy (CE) principles as a feasible solution. To facilitate enhanced recycling rates and circularity of plastics, herein, we propose a model named ZERO, to implement the recycling of plastics through the emerging blockchain technology and ontology. We believe these proposed strategies will be key in building a circular economy for the plastic industries and sustainable development. Keywords Blockchain technology . Plastic recycling . Ontology . Circular economy . IoT . Sustainability . Smart bins . Post-COVID initiative . Waste-to-value . Landfills . Waste segregation
Introduction At the moment, plastic has become both a symbol of human ingenuity and absurdity. Plastic is created as a remarkable material with various characteristics, capabilities and challenges. We failed to pay attention in the management of the plastic after its life (Barnes et al. 2009). In next three decades, our oceans will contain more plastic by volume than the fishes (WEM 2016). It is our responsibility to bring a change in the life cycle of plastics. Advances like IoT (Internet of Things), blockchain and AI [artificial intelligence] should be brought into play to plan new models right from creation to circulation, retail, utilization, removal, assortment and recycling. The nations across the globe have to realize the value of the planet where tons of plastics are accumulated and these wastes are spoiling the ecosystem (Kshetri 2017a). As the single-use
* R. Sandhiya [email protected] Seeram Ramakrishna [email protected] 1
Department of Information Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
plastics are limited, it is possible for the towns and urban areas to advance towards the zero-plastic waste objective. For a zero-plastic waste society, the current plastic reusing rates ought to fundamentally increment. To do as such, nearby overseeing specialists ought to build up a legitimate plastic waste assortment organization and formal arranging and reusing units for making a shut circle of plastics. Companies involved in the plastic product manufacturing are demanding for a secured platform to tag, test and track the products with the unique molecular tags that are applied at the manufacturing process. As the problem of counterfeiting is drastically increasing, advanced technology can be used in the plastic products to implement the “molecular barcode” system (Michaudel and Fors 2016). These “molecular b
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