The amount of produced or imported CFLs minus the exported
amount from country during 2007 through 2012 (according to report
of National Statistics Organization, Ministry of Industry and
Mining of Iran) is presented in Table 1. The amount of waste represented
by CFLs was predicted by considering typical lifetime of
2.5 year. A multilayer perception artificial neural network using
batch training method and gradient descent algorithm was used
to predict the amount of waste production of CFLs from 2010
through 2020 (Table 2