Mohsin, I do not really know your context. But from smart solution, I thought about multi-robotic solution. Please see the attached paper to get an idea.

Conference Paper Grid Ant Colony Optimization Applied to a Multi-robotic Garb...

Mohsin, we published different techniques applied to this problem. There are also videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j99UtSHMCRs

Article Swarm intelligence and the quest to solve a garbage and recy...

Zero Waste is a concept that challenges the old way of thinking about waste as something that has no value and to be thrown away. According to the Zero Waste Alliance:

Zero waste suggests that the entire concept of waste should be eliminated. Instead, waste should be thought of as a “residual product” or simply a “potential resource” to counter our basic acceptance of waste as a normal course of events. Opportunities such as reduced costs, increased profits, and reduced environmental impacts are found when returning these “residual products” or “resources” as food to either natural and industrial systems.

Zero Waste is a whole system approach that changes the way materials flow through society and ultimately results in no waste. It involves reducing consumption, minimising wastage, maximising recycling and composting, and ensuring that products and materials are designed to use less resources and made to be reused, recycled or biodegradable.

Nature is the best Zero Waste model. There is no waste in nature and by-products produced become resources for others or are assimilated harmlessly back to the surroundings

http://www.zerowastesg.com/zero-waste/

SINGAPORE: A tender for food waste recycling machines for 10 schools across Singapore was issued on Friday (Dec 2), the National Environment Agency (NEA) said.

In its press release, NEA said companies can submit their proposals for the leasing, service and maintenance of these machines for the schools. This is part of an NEA project to spread awareness of food waste management and encourage schools to reduce the amount of food waste they generate and dispose of.

The agency added that under NEA’s two-year food waste reduction and recyclingproject for schools, training will be provided by the vendor for the schools’ staff, students and canteen stall holders on the proper segregation of food waste for recycling.

On top of segregating food waste for recycling, participating schools will hold assembly talks to encourage students not to waste food and host learning journeys for neighbouring schools and their community partners to share their food wastereduction and recycling efforts.

This project is part of NEA’s holistic efforts to manage food waste and is in line with its goal for Singapore to become a Zero Waste Nation under the Sustainable Singapore Blueprint 2015.

The tender will open from Friday and will close at 4pm on Dec 23. The project is expected to be launched by the second quarter of 2017, NEA said.  

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/food-waste-recycling-machines-wanted-for-10-schools/3336596.html

Dear Dr. Qureshi,

I just came across this garbage management program in Singapore. I think it's a good idea to convert waste into energy for household consumption. Here's a portion from the article:

"Singapore also turned to incinerating waste, which both reduced the volume going into landfills and produced electricity. Now its four waste-to-energy plants account for almost 3% of the country’s electricity needs, and recycling rates are at an all-time high of 60%."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapores-innovative-waste-disposal-system-1442197715

Hope this is relevant.

Sincerely,

Cameen

Dear Mohsin,

Please see the below given link for your appropriate answer.

 https://www.ijircce.com/upload/2016/february/29_IoT.pdf

http://www.ijritcc.org/download/Concept,%20Design%20and%20Implementation%20of%20Automatic%20Waste%20Management%20System.pdf

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00924270/document

Regards

Krishna

Check out the centre for resource recovery at the University of Boras, Sweden. The city of Boras is one of the best in the world in municipal waste treatment. They develop many different techniques for waste water treatment, biogas production, fungal fermentations, degradation of chicken feathers with bacteria, fermentation of lignocellulose etc etc. 

Check out papers by Taherzadeh, it's a very productive group.

Thank all  for the valuable comments.

Here we would like to focus, to reduce the disposal volume, reduce the waste production, smart ways to deal with the waste between production and final destination.

Here waste management is going though a transition state, so a robust approach can be employed, based on the lessons learned by the developed countries during their journey on waste management.

 I disagree with your opinion that "Traditional waste management is not smart and energy efficient". But rather through the technological development, we have to ensure that the traditional methods are converted to smart and energy efficient through integrated waste management solutions.

Waste management is a big environmental issue/challenge, faced by many countries.

We need to develop systems, which not only reduce the amount of waste but also recycle/reuse the waste. The whole cycle of waste production and management has to be looked again. The whole journey of the waste has to be followed, on which the matter changes in different forms due to environmental factors and human made processes. 

I think the better solution is Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) techniques which are widely used to develop "Zero Waste Concept"  especially in industries.

Conference Paper Evaluation Of Cleaner Production Potentials In A Textile Ind...

 Dear Disna

Thank you for the inserting article. We may need to review the industrial processes, so that, the type of waste can be utilized by the industry itself or streamlined to next process, for its beneficial reuse. It is definite that the landfills or surface impoundments are not the permanent solutions.

Yes we can

Yes, we can improve the system with IoT based waste management system. Many municipalities in different countries are opting for smart bins to manage waste. I am currently working on this article. Here is the relevant link I have come across during my research.

https://www.rtinsights.com/iot-makes-smart-waste-management-efficient/

Dear, Mohsin Usman Qureshi

These scientific contributions that I put into your consideration, propose improvements in waste management systems and processes. I hope you find these publications very useful.

• Article The interplay of circular economy with industry 4.0 enabled ...

• Article Designing a smart incentive-based recycling system for house...

• Article A Stochastic Multi-agent System for IoT-enabled Waste Manage...

I agree with researchers Krishna Kumar Yadav and Jonas Nyman.

For smart smart waste management system a single approach like traditional or technological interventions are sufficient. We have to take an integrated approach of both along with 5R's concept.

once try to see this...

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/dsd/csd/csd_pdfs/csd-19/learningcentre/presentations/May%202%20am/1%20-%20Memon%20-%20ISWM.pdf

Pls refer to the following article to know more about the trending features of IoT in waste management:

Chapter Recent Trends in IOT-Enabled Composter for Organic Wastes