Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Derby City Council has warned there may be “temporary pauses” to brown bin collections in some areas because of problems with its ...

The increasing number of intelligent electrical appliances and home energy management systems provide a big opportunity for demand response services from residential and small commercial buildings to ...

We consider the one-dimensional Bin Packing Problem (BPP) and its solution using a novel heuristic approach namely the Plant Propagation Algorithm (PPA). The problem can be stated as follows: given a ...

As a child, I often accompanied my mother to the grocery store. As she pulled out her card to pay, I heard the same phrase like clockwork: “Go bag the groceries.” It was not my favorite task. Now ...

Residents in Llangollen have complained about Denbighshire Council's roll-out of its new recycling scheme, claiming it won’t work. Denbighshire County Council insists that "teething problems" are ...

Abstract: With the growing demand for sustainable and optimal packaging solutions, this study proposes a novel two-stage algorithm for the multi-container three-dimensional bin packing problem. The ...

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence more adaptable than ever before, but that comes with a drawback: lies. Generative AI tends to make things up, but ...

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a generalized extensible bin packing problem with overload cost, first proposed by Denton et al. in 2010, in which the total size of items packed into a bin is ...

Like death and taxes, there is one more certainty to life - rubbish the world over smells the same. Strangely comforting if you find yourself far away from home. But, let's face it, the outside ...

Old community dustbins, which are often found full and overflowing, are an eyesore and actually puncture the BMC’s claim and efforts to beautify the city. There are around 1,500 such bins across the ...