MODELLING INFORMAL WASTE COLLECTORS' PERSPECTIVE FOR PLASTIC SOLID WASTES: ENERGY 4.0

Informal waste collectors consist of individuals, alliances, or waste dealers charged with the responsibility to sort, sell, and purchase recyclable materials. Technology has progressively been integrated into the energy sector. In this context “informal waste collections” for efficient and effective delivery of services. The technological transformations witnessed across the globe can be attributed to the underlying benefits of Industry 4.0 which offers numerous opportunities. This paper aims to integrate decision-support tools of Industry 4.0 for Energy and resource efficiency termed “Energy 4.0”. The real-time integrated impact assessment of energy protocols such as waste requires a skill that is valuable and can be estimated by quantitative approaches. Solid wastes can be converted into gas to produce energy hence described as one of the energy strategies. The methodology reviews the tools of Industry 4.0, specifically Agent-based simulation. To develop an integrated decision model suitable to explore the interactions and behavioral patterns of informal waste collectors' perspectives on plastic solid wastes. Research provides evidence of the use of agent-based models to explicitly associate and explore individuals' behavioral attributes and etiquette with their social consequences. The outputs indicate expansive or complex relationships amongst the subsets in context. The results enable relevant stakeholders to better discern the opportunities that the tools of Industry 4.0 provide for energy and resource efficiency.