Table 4 Performance comparison of AI-based waste classification methods.

From: Blockchain based solid waste classification with AI powered tracking and IoT integration

Study

AI model used

Classification accuracy (%)

Processing time (s)

Blockchain security (%)

Waste collection efficiency (%)

CO2 reduction (%)

Precision (%)

Recall (%)

F1-score

Latency (s)

Proposed method

CNN (transfer learning)

95

1.2

98

92

30

93

91

0.94

1.2

Blockchain-enabled VANET scheme

SVM

88

2.2

85

80

15

85

78

0.89

2.5

Smart waste management system

Decision tree

90

1.8

90

85

20

89

83

0.92

1.8