Hazardous wastes include numerous kinds of discarded chemicals and other wastes generated from industrial, commercial, and institutional activities. These types of waste present immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment and therefore require special handling for safe disposal. Landfills that can accept hazardous wastes are excavated or engineered sites where th...

Municipal solid waste landfill site selection for the city of ŞanliurfaTurkey: an example using MCDA integrated with GIS M. Irfan Yesilnacar a , M. Lütfi Süzen b , Başak Şener Kaya c & Vedat Doyuran b a Department of Environmental Engineering, Harran University, Şanliurfa, Turkey b Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey c Colorado School of Mines,...

MCDA-GIS integrated approach for optimized landfill site selection for growing urban regions: an application of neighborhood-proximity analysis Yashon O. Oumaa,b∗, Emmanuel C. Kipkorirc and Ryutaro Tateishia aCenter for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; bCivil and Structural Engineering, Moi University, Eldoret 30100, Kenya; cEnvironmental Planning & Manageme...

Landfill location selection is a multi-criteria decision problem and has a strategic importance for many regions. The conventional methods for landfill location selection are insufficient in dealing with the vague or imprecise nature of linguistic assessment. To resolve this problem, fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods are proposed. The aim of this paper is to use fuzzy TODIM (the acro...

Designing environmentally sound landfills is a challenging engineering task due to complex interactions of numerous design variables; such as landfill size, waste characteristics, and site hydrogeology. Decision support systems (DSS) can be utilized to handle these complex interactions and to aid in a performance-based landfill design by coupling system simulation models (SSM). The aim of this ...

Air pollution directional risk (APDR) is an essential factor to be assessed when selecting an appropriate landfill site. Because air pollutants generated from a landfill are diffused and transported by wind in different directions and speeds, areas surrounding the landfill will be subject to different associated risks, depending on their relative position from the landfill. This study assesses ...

Historically, landfills have been the dominant alternative for the ultimate disposal of municipal solid waste. This paper addresses the problem of siting a new landfill using an intelligent system based on fuzzy inference. The proposed system can accommodate new information on the landfill site selection by updating its knowledge base. Several factors are considered in the siting process includ...