Integration of Green Chemistry and Digital Technology for Sustainable Development and Smart Cities

To sum up, chemical products and processes may be crucial in facilitating the shift to more sustainable manufacturing methods, promoting the circular economy, and tackling the SDGs. Green chemistry seeks to minimize and eradicate dangerous compounds while advancing human and environmental health, resource conservation, and economic sustainability. By proposing how to apply the responsible roadmapping technique to include the ideas of responsible research and innovation into green chemistry practices, this work closes a significant gap. Different action plans for trans- and inter-disciplinary research and responsible innovation were produced by applying this strategy to three research projects that focused on safer and more sustainable production methods. By adding pertinent social, ethical, political, legal, and/or economic elements, the interdisciplinary roadmapping process broadened the plans' scope. The study shows that by employing responsible roadmaps, researchers can be empowered to plan how to maximize the positive effects of their research and innovation while minimizing risks and bad effects, and to accept responsibility for co-creating sustainable futures through their R&D efforts. Urban infrastructure is changing from reactive, static models to predictive, robust, and sustainable systems through the integration of Industry 4.0 technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and graph-theoretic optimization. An AI-IoT-graph architecture may reach a 94.1% predictive accuracy for bin overflows, resulting in a 50% decrease in overflow events, a 72.7% decrease in missed pickups, and a 15.5% reduction in fuel usage, according to a key case study in smart waste management.

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