Plans to digitize Estonia's waste management system to make it fully traceable in real-time are being drawn up by the Ministry of Environment.
Estonia is planning to be the first country with a fully digital real-time monitoring system for waste management which will also help assess people's garbage sorting behavior.
The new system will help reduce people's fears that their carefully sorted garbage is not being taken to the right place. The data will help create new business models of waste management and for companies to better plan their own activities.
As data will be received in real-time it will be possible to quickly see where problems occur and then fix them. The new system will also be more transparent for the public.