Waste collection is a highly visible municipal service that involves large expenditures and
difficult operational problems, plus it is expensive to operate in terms of investment costs (ie …

In the history of sustainable development, particular attention has been paid to waste
management systems (WMS), especially in smart cities. Putting real-world assumptions into …

Waste collection and transport can generate up to 70% of the total costs of the system.
Separated collection of recyclables implies additional costs for which the sale of recycled …

This work proposes an innovative methodology for the reduction of the operation costs and
pollutant emissions involved in the waste collection and transportation. Its innovative feature …

Waste collection and transport (WC&T) constitutes a large fraction of the total municipal solid
waste (MSW) management costs worldwide. In Greece currently this may account for 70 …

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 …

Optimization of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and transportation through source
separation becomes one of the major concerns in the MSW management system design …

The quick growth of urbanization and population, as well as the transformation of industrial
and materials, have pushed the management of municipal solid waste into a crisis …

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 …

The issue addressed in this paper consists in the localization and dimensioning of transfer
stations, which constitute a necessary intermediate level in the logistic chain of the solid …