Abstract
Efficient energy recovery from burnable waste is an important challenge related to the mitigation of climate change. At the same time, the promotion of streamlining labor in the waste sector is also becoming a necessity, due to Japan’s shrinking labor force due to a growing population of aging citizens and a declining birthrate. Under such circumstances, utilization of information technology can provide effective solutions. For example, a promising alternative solution for making energy recovery more sophisticated would be to put the energy from industry waste into use:, i.e. recycled fuel can be utilized as a substitute for fossil fuel and steam from a waste incinerator can be supplied to neighboring factories for a savings of fuel almost double that of waste power generation. In such cases, taking a balance of supply and demand for energy is the key issue to consider and a combination of information technologies and robot technology would simplify this to greatly contribute to streamlining the processes of waste collection and treatment.
