This study develops a sustainability assessment model for analysis and decision-making of the impact of China’s municipal solid waste management enhancement strategy options based on three waste treatment scenarios: landfill disposal, waste-to-energy incineration, and a combination of a material recovery facility and composting. The model employs life cycle assessment, health risk assessment, a...

Sea shores of Gilan Province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in Iran. This area have valuable forests and grasslands. In addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. Considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. However waste management instruction have been ratified in Iran, there isn’t any specific...

forecasting of municipal waste generation is a critical challenge for decision making and planning,because proper planning and operation of a solid waste management system is intensively affected by municipal solid waste (msw) streams analysis and accurate predictions of solid waste quantities generated. due to dynamic and complexity of solid waste management system, models by artificial intell...

This comprehensive work explores the research performed inoptimization of the collection bin and in recycle bin location-allocation issues in solidwaste management. Although the collection phase of solid waste management accountsfor a significant proportion of the municipal budget, it has attracted only limitedattention of the researchers. Optimization of the collection bin and recycle bin loca...

this comprehensive work explores the research performed inoptimization of the collection bin and in recycle bin location-allocation issues in solidwaste management. although the collection phase of solid waste management accountsfor a significant proportion of the municipal budget, it has attracted only limitedattention of the researchers. optimization of the collection bin and recycle bin loca...

In this study, an inexact fuzzy-queue programming (IFQP) model is developed for municipal solid waste (MSW) management under uncertainty, where fuzzy queue (FQ) model is introduced into the intervalfuzzy linear programming (IFLP) framework. The proposed IFQP model can not only handle uncertainties that are presented in terms of fuzzy sets and discrete intervals, but also reflect the influence o...

Due to urbanization increasing, poor planning, lack of financial support and etc, it results in the poor state of municipal solid wastes management in most cities, especially in developing countries. A mass of solid wastes are dumped in the open air without effective environmental conservation measures, which leads to some open-air solid wastes dumps. Management of these dumps is one of the mos...