As planning for sustainable municipal solid waste management has to address several inter-
connected issues such as landfill capacity, environmental impacts and financial expenditure …

Both planning and design of municipal solid waste management systems require accurate
prediction of solid waste generation. Yet achieving the anticipated prediction accuracy with …

This article presents a system model to analyze the solid waste disposal problem in New
York State. The model shows that the solid waste system will go through a costly transition …

Managing construction and demolition (C&D) wastes has challenged many municipalities
with diminishing waste disposal capacity. Facing such challenges, the Massachusetts …

Shortage of land for waste disposal is a serious and growing potential problem in most large
urban regions. However, no practical studies have been reported in the literature that …

In face of the population and economic growth of the 20th century, solid waste management
(SWM) has become one of the most critical public policy issues challenging state and local …

Planning for sustainable urban solid waste management (USWM) in developing countries
has to address several interdependent issues such as public health, environment, present …

Planning a regional waste management strategy is a critical step that, if not properly
addressed, will lead to an inefficient integrated solid waste management (ISWM) system …

In this paper, a grey integer-programming (GIP) formulation for the capacity planning of an
integrated waste management system under uncertainty is applied to a North American case …

Economic competitiveness is one of the key factors in making decisions towards the
development of waste conversion facilities and devising a sustainable waste management …