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{{See also|Environmental monitoring|Border control|Materials recovery facility}}
Traditionally, the [[waste management industry]] has been a late adopter of new technologies such as [[Radio-frequency identification|RFID]] (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, GPS and integrated software packages which enable better quality data to be collected without the use of estimation or manual data entry.<ref>{{cite web |title=Air-Trak Brings Visibility to Waste Management |date=4 February 2014 |url=http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?11406 |publisher=RFID Journal |author=Claire Swedberg |access-date=1 October 2015 |archive-date=2 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002111330/http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?11406 |url-status=live }}</ref> This technology has been used widely by many organizations in some industrialized countries. Radiofrequency identification is a tagging system for automatic identification of recyclable components of municipal solid waste streams.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Abdoli|first=S|date=28 September 2020|title=RFID Application in Municipal Solid Waste Management system|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27794462|journal=International Journal of Environmental Research|via=Research gate}}</ref>
Smart waste management has been implemented in several cities, including San Francisco, Varde or Madrid.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sensors Used in Waste Management |url=https://nordsense.com/cases/ |website=NORD SENSE |access-date=15 April 2024}}</ref> Waste containers are equipped with [[level sensor]]s. When the container is almost full, the sensor warns the pickup truck, which can thus trace its route servicing the fullest containers and skipping the emptiest ones.<ref>{{cite web |title=Madrid: Eliminating Overflowing Waste with Reliable and High-Quality Data |url=https://nordsense.com/cases-madrid/ |website=NORD SENSE |access-date=15 April 2024}}</ref>
== Statistics and trends ==
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