Plastic waste is a special category of municipal solid waste. Plastic waste collection is
featured with various alternatives of collection methods (curbside/drop-off) and separation …

This paper describes a study of planning vehicle routes for the collection of urban recyclable
waste. The aim is to create collection routes for every day of the month, to be repeated every …

Solid waste management faces increasing challenges due to rapid urbanisation and
population growth. In addition, the different types of waste sources are scattered in different …

The rapid and constant increase in urban population has led to a drastic rise in urban solid
waste production with worrying consequences for the environment and society. In many …

Post-consumer plastic packaging waste (PPW) can be collected for recycling via source
separation or post-separation. In source separation, households separate plastics from other …

Plastic recycling is a legal requirement and can yield environmental benefits. In the
Netherlands, there is a complex network of various collection methods, separation centers …

This paper focuses on designing waste collection routes with a single landfill using eco-
efficiency as a performance indicator. In this problem, there are a limited number of …

Considering the importance of the waste collection sector, mainly in developing countries,
this paper evaluates the implementation of the selective collection of recyclable waste so …

This paper reports on a project dealing with waste collection management. A methodology
used in this case study combines an operations research method with systems engineering …

This article deals with a real‐life waste collection routing problem. To efficiently plan waste
collection, large municipalities may be partitioned into convenient sectors and only then can …