Environmental Economical Optimization for Municipal Solid Waste Collection Problems, A Modeling and Algorithmic Approach Case Study

摘要

Increasing environmental concerns and interests in material and energy conservation have lead to increasing advancement in the management of solid waste over the past two decades. The field of modeling of waste management system, as opposed to the modeling of a particular component of the system, has been active since the late 1980s. Many modeling approaches are being utilized; including optimization, statistics, and simulation in recent years. The cost of managing residential solid waste in the United States in 1990 has been estimated to be on the order of U.S. $19.5 billion annually, with collection accounting for approximately 50% of this total (Tchobanoglous et al. 1993).rnIn this paper, using data from one of the populated cities in Germany, MSW logistic mathematical model is presented, capable of estimating the collection and transportation costs as well as the environmental impact for Municipal solid waste.