A municipal solid waste (MSW) and recycled material curbside pickup bus system was
recently initiated in a Taiwan city to improve collection service. For such an MSW pickup …

The efficiency of Taiwan's waste management and resource recycling systems has been
well recognized in recent years, but the present model used to locate recycling centers and …

Separating recyclables from municipal solid waste (MSW) before collection reduces not only
the quantity of MSW that needs to be treated but also the depletion of resources. However …

In Taiwan, vendors and businesses that sell products belonging to six classes of recyclable
materials are required to provide recycling containers at their local retail stores. The …

Geographic information systems are a valuable tool for waste collection and optimization,
but they have been underutilized in helping to understand the complex interrelationships …

Convenience has consistently been perceived as one of the crucial determinants of
household recycling behavior in source separation systems studied over the last several …

Collection, transfer and transport of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most
challenging tasks of local municipalities and occupies a significant portion of the municipal …

/Effective planning of solid-waste recycling programs is a substantial challenge to the current
solid-waste management systems in Taiwan. Due to the rapid depletion of landfill space and …

Curbside collection of municipal solid waste (MSW) constitutes a substantial portion of waste
management cost. The utilization of operations research tools for the reduction of MSW …

This paper investigates the waste collection problem and characterizes the problem as a set-
covering and vehicle routing problem (VRP) complicated by inter-arrival time constraints …