The Innovator Role of Technologies in Waste Management towards the Sustainable Development

The paper “The innovator role of technologies in waste management towards the sustainable development” presents the most significant IT technologies that have contributed to the identification and implementation of new forms of economic and social development that takes into account the evaluation of the environmental impact of products throughout their life cycle. Technologies such as decision support systems (DSS), remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS), online web services, virtualization and cloud computing are analyzed in terms of the innovator role and of the impact on the sustainable development of society.The concept of sustainable development is summarized in the paper along with the main stages of action at EU level and in Romania. This paper focuses on the issue of the waste management and the role of IT to support management activities. In the context of the sustainable waste prediction is of great interest to the companies involved in the entire chain of waste management, to the local government in order to assess the costs and establishing the budgets.