Main question is the will the most emerging technology i.e. Blockchain technology will help in reducing the waste?

Till date there are several startups going on to increase the efficiency of the Waste management but they fail to do so because of the huge amount of waste and the lack of accountability.Due to this now a days startups based on waste management are looking into the #Blockchain technology to increase the accountability and the effectiveness of the data (For example storing the data of the amount of waste generated by every single individual).

Perhaps the greatest issue facing the waste management industry is that there is simply so much waste to handle. Worldwide, solid waste generation is projected to increase by 70 percent between 2010 and 2025. As the volume of waste grows, so does the difficulty of finding a place to put it all without polluting.

One important way of mitigating this problem is to make better use of recycling in order to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills. That's what cities like San Francisco are doing as they pursue a "zero waste" goal .

However this not practically feasible because most of the developing countries because consumers are sometimes confused about what can be recycled or how to do it. And they often have little incentive to recycle, since the extra effort required to sort and deposit recyclables usually results in little financial reward. In many cases, there is no financial incentive to recycle at all. When such incentives do exist, they tend to come in the form of bottle deposit fees that fail to keep pace with inflation .

Accountability has very important role in efficiently manage waste

Consumers who diligently sort out recyclables from trash have little way of knowing that the former do not end up in landfills despite their efforts, because it is impossible in most cases for consumers to track waste once it leaves their curb. It is also difficult to ensure that the fees contractors charge local governments to dispose of waste - which are typically measured according to the weight of the waste - are accurately calculated. The lack of accountability and visibility within waste management networks further disincentivizes recycling, while also making environmentally responsible waste management difficult.

But a number of companies are building platforms that use blockchains to solve these issues.

Swachhcoin

#Swachhcoin aims to improve not just recycling but the entire waste management process by combining blockchain technology with big data analytics and IoT-enabled smart devices. Its digital token, also called "Swachhcoin," serves primarily as a payment system for rewarding individual households for participating in the platform, but the company also says it is developing other technologies to improve the efficiency of waste management once waste has left individual consumers.

Recereum

#Recereum is using the blockchain to tackle another challenge related to recycling: Waste sorting, or the process of sorting recyclable materials from other types of waste.
The project is building a platform that will enable municipalities and other organizations to reward proper waste sorting. Eventually, the project hopes to go further by releasing devices like vending machines where consumers can turn in specialty recyclables, such as batteries.

There are several key differences in these two projects such as Swachhcoin has a technology that separates out the waste from the source and provide the incentives in form their SCX tokens which will be very efficient for the Waste management companies to recycle the waste in a very short period of time because sorting is only the time consuming process in the process of #recycling.But in case of Recereum they are giving the incentives for manually for separately putting the waste in their bins.

I personally prefer to automatically separate waste rather than me wasting time for separating the waste and getting incentives.

I would like to provide a brief picture of how SCX tokens can be used