• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.69-76
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• 2000

The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibilities on national recycling goal upto 40% in 2002 or more in the future. Sampling survey, Including waste generation rates, seperated recyclables and collection forces, covered households of 16,199 units, work places of 90 units and road length of 159km in Seoul. Survey results were used to calculate amounts of solid waste and recyclables according to physical properties, policy oriented measures, generator sand collection forces. This study founded followings ; Seoul's solid waste totaled 11,098ton/day, about 45% of which were recyclables and supposed to maximun level for recycling. Therefore, national goal for recycling proved to be attainable At this time,71.4% of recyclables was seperated by generators, and to stimulate the seperation activities of recyclables, endeavor of establishments, which seperated 65.6% of their recyclables, will be needed more than one of residence, which did 87.4% of their recyclables. Private forces collected 86.6% of recyclables seperated by generators, and have collection potentials equivalent to all recyclables generated in Seoul. But some incetives should be introduced to encourage private forces' activities, because values of recyclables to be collected in the future are lower than that did now.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2020

Amid growing interest in recycling around the world, the amount of waste is increasing despite the separate discharge efforts of each household, and it is difficult to find accurate data on recycling household waste. Also, recycling segregation is already settled in our daily lives, but we face a serious problem in which a significant portion of the recyclables collected are re-waste. In this study has been proposed a cash compensation system for recyclables, which is paid cash when the recyclables are washed clean and discharged. The cash compensation system proposed in this study could re-use 100% of the discharged recyclables, resulting in rewards for good deeds for individuals, greater returns for businesses and reduced disposal costs for local governments. In addition, it is expected that the government will be able to secure data related to the recycling of domestic waste, which will contribute to the management of recyclables at the national level.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.76-88
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• 2012

In this study, the treatment flow of the recyclables(paper, plastic, metal, etc.) collected and separated from MSW was investigated throughout entire phase from separation and collection to final disposal. Based on the site survey, most recyclables came into six material recovery facilities were comparatively managed well. However, some of recyclables showed irrelatively transportation flow. Because the main income source of the recyclables transportation companies is profit margin between treatment and transportation cost based on economics only therefore, it occurs an unnecessary route and long distance transportation while going to final destination. This unreasonable system should be a serious problem relating establishment of the resource recycling system. As a result of this study, in order to establish the reasonably resource recycling system, recycling center including material recovery facility has to manage the recyclables generated in close range preferentially. Also integrated its treatment system over a wide area will need to be considered as a basic step for the reasonable reasonably resource recycling system.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.524-534
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• 2022

In this paper, we produce Trash Object Detection (TOD) dataset to solve trash detection problems. A well-organized dataset of sufficient size is essential to train object detection models and apply them to specific tasks. However, existing trash datasets have only a few hundred images, which are not sufficient to train deep neural networks. Most datasets are classification datasets that simply classify categories without location information. In addition, existing datasets differ from the actual guidelines for separating and discharging recyclables because the category definition is primarily the shape of the object. To address these issues, we build and experiment with trash datasets larger than conventional trash datasets and have more than twice the resolution. It was intended for general household goods. And annotated based on guidelines for separating and discharging recyclables from the Ministry of Environment. Our dataset has 10 categories, and around 33K objects were annotated for around 5K images with 1280×720 resolution. The dataset, as well as the pre-trained models, have been released at https://github.com/jms0923/tod.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.45-66
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• 2008

Refuse collection, one of important elements in reverse logistics, is an activity rendering recyclables or wastes and moving them to some points where further treatment is required. Among various decisions in the collection activity, we focus on network design, which is the problem of locating collection points as well as allocating refuses at demand points to collection points while satisfying the capacity restriction at each collection point. Here, the collection point is the place where recyclables or wastes near the point are gathered, and locating the collection points is done by selecting them from a given set of potential sites. The objective is to minimize the sum of fixed costs to open collection points and transportation costs to move refuses from demand points to collection points. An integer programming model is developed to represent the problem mathematically and due to the complexity of the problem, two types of heuristics, one with simultaneous and the others with separate location and allocation, are suggested. Computational experiments were done on test problems up to 500 potential sites, and the results are reported. In particular, some heuristics gave near optimal solutions for small-size test problems, i.e., 2% gaps in average from the optimal solution values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.07a
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• pp.477-478
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• 2022

최근 코로나19 팬데믹의 영향으로 온라인 소비가 늘면서 종이, 플라스틱 등 재활용품의 사용량이 증가하고 있다. 또한 1인 가구의 중가에 따라 분리수거 배출이 제대로 이루어지지 않는 추세이다. 대부분의 1인 가구가 거주하고 있는 원룸 밀집 지역의 분리수거 여건이 제대로 갖춰진 곳이 많지 않으며, 분리수거 기준이 모호한 종류들이 많다. 재활용품 분리수거가 제대로 이루어지지 않는다면 에너지 및 자원낭비와 쓰레기 소각으로 인한 환경오염이 초래된다. 본 논문에서는 딥러닝 객체 인식 및 검출을 통한 재활용품 분류 결과에 따른 모터제어 및 분리수거를 진행하는 재활용품 분리수거 장치를 개발하였다. 해당 장치는 객체인식 알고리즘 YOLOV4를 이용하여 객체를 인식 및 검출한 후 모터제어, LED를 통해 분리수거 및 피드백을 제공한다. 이를 활용하여 누구나 쉽게 분리수거를 할 수 있도록 편의성을 제공하며 재활용 쓰레기 수거율을 높여 소각으로 인한 환경오염 방지를 기대할 수 있다.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.747-761
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• 2015

This paper investigates the impact of an increase in unit price of solid waste collection on demand for alternative solid waste disposal types. I control for other variables affecting the demand and employ both community and time fixed effects models in the estimation of each reduced-form demand functions. Estimation results show that an increase in unit price reduces the demand for garbage bag collection services of non-food solid wastes while it increases the demand for food wastes and source-separated recyclables. These results imply that reduction in the demand for non-food solid wastes collection is mainly achieved by increasing the amount of recyclables and food wastes collected. However, it appears that an increase in unit price increases the total amount of solid wastes generated. This suggests that price incentive effects are offset by the decrease in source-reduction efforts because of feedback effects resulting from the increase in recycling, food waste separation, and illegal disposal of wastes.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.145-146
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• 2013

현대 디자이너는 사회로부터 다양화와 현대화에 대한 지속적인 요구를 받고 있으며, 한편으로는 자원의 유한성이라는 제한으로 인해 다양화와 현대화와의 모순이라는 현실에 직면하고 있다. 이러한 배경들로 말미암아 재활용품 개발은 현대 디자인에서 중요한 분야로 자리 잡고 있다. 본 연구는 폐기물 재활용품의 모듈형식 디자인에 관한 분석을 통하여 지속 가능한 각도에서의 모듈형식 디자인의 역할과 그 중요성의 의미를 인정하고 모듈형식의 생활용품 디자인에서 나타난 정보를 통하여 재활용품 디자인의 개발방향을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.19-23
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• 2001

In addition to landfilling and incineration, waste minimization and recycling have become priorities in Taiwan's municipal waste management strategies over the past 10 years. Major recycling initiatives being implemented in Taiwan include producer responsibility, "pay-as-you-throw, " and mandatory sorting provisions. Currently, the producer responsibility regime established under the Waste Disposal Act and administered by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) requires that manufacturers or importers of listed items, including containers, batteries. cars, motorcycles ("scooters"), tires, oil, televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, computers, and printers, pay recycling fees to government recycling funds. EPA then uses the recycling funds to subsidize collection and recycling. The 2001 recycling fund budget totals NT$57 billion (NT$35 = US$l). Under the producer responsibility regime, EPA-designated retailers ("sellers") must accept end-of-life items returned to them by the consumers. At the local level, Taipei City implements a pay-as-you-throw program, whereby citizens pay waste collection and treatment fees through the purchase of special trash bags approved by the Taipei City Government. However. recyclables that are separated by citizens are collected free-of-charge by the City. Taichung City and Kaohsiung City, on the other hand, enforce mandatory sorting schemes, whereby citizens face penalties if they don't separate recyclables from the trash before pick-up. These programs have resulted in a significant reduction in municipal waste. Per capita waste collected per day has dropped from 1.143 kg in 1997 to 0.978 kg in 2000. Targeting a 10% recycling rate for municipal waste in 2001. EPA plans to research and develop new recycling techniques, expand the scope of producer responsibilities, and strengthen existing municipal recyclable collection programs. To this end, among other initiatives, EPA has prepared a draft "Resource Recycling and Reuse Act" that would complement the existing producer responsibility programs by incorporating into the current recycling framework the concept of product life-cycle management.

• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.62-70
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• 1993

The study was performed to investigate the present situation of sourceseparation, recycling of domestic waste and citizen's attitude to them. The selected study area were Dobonggu in Seoul, Siheung city, Kimpogun. The result showed that most of the citizen in the selected area is performing source separation effort by group activity basis. However, there is no strong economic incentives for continuous source separation effect since the price of the recyclables is relatively low. For the recycled products, most people appears to think that the diversification of the product should be necessary for a bitter market competativeness. For the disporsable product, most citizen feels that free that supply in the public facilities should be prohibited.