A proposal to improve e-waste collection efficiency in urban mining: Container loading and vehicle routing problems–A case study of Poland

P Nowakowski - Waste Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), also known as e-waste, is one of the
most important waste streams with high recycling potential. Materials used in these products …

Supporting mobile WEEE collection on demand: A method for multi-criteria vehicle routing, loading and cost optimisation

P Nowakowski, A Król, B Mrówczyńska - Waste Management, 2017 - Elsevier
The task of increasing collection rates of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
is an important challenge in the global economy, and especially in the European Union …

[HTML][HTML] Combining an artificial intelligence algorithm and a novel vehicle for sustainable e-waste collection

P Nowakowski, K Szwarc, U Boryczka - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Mobile collection of waste electrical and electronic equipment is a collection method that is
convenient for residents and companies. New opportunities to use mobile apps and internet …

Vehicle routing for the eco-efficient collection of household plastic waste

X Bing, M de Keizer, JM Bloemhof-Ruwaard… - Waste management, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Assessing and improving management practices when planning packaging waste collection systems

TRP Ramos, MI Gomes, AP Barbosa-Póvoa - … , Conservation and Recycling, 2014 - Elsevier
Packaging waste collection systems are responsible to collect, within a geographic area,
three types of packaging materials (paper, glass and plastic/metal) that are disposed by the …

WEEE treatment and system management in Italy and Serbia: A comparison

I Berežni, FD Castro, B Batinić… - Waste Management …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) represent one of the growing waste
streams in Europe, whose content of hazardous substances and valuable materials focus on …

Integrated E-waste transportation using capacitated general routing problem with time-window

P Pourhejazy, D Zhang, Q Zhu, F Wei… - … Research Part E: Logistics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Formal collectors of electronics waste in the developing countries are struggling to survive
despite receiving governmental subsidies at the early stages of their activities. The formal …

Location of municipal waste containers: Trade-off between criteria

V Nevrlý, R Šomplák, V Smejkalová, T Lipovský… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a growing trend in waste management, which is associated with an increasing
number of separately collected waste fractions. This is supported by novel directives of EU …

Optimising waste from electric and electronic equipment collection systems: A comparison of approaches in European countries

H Friege, M Oberdörfer… - Waste Management & …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The first European waste from electric and electronic equipment directive obliged the
Member States to collect 4 kg of used devices per inhabitant and year. The target of the …

[PDF][PDF] A GIS based model for the optimisation of municipal solid waste collection: the case study of Nikea, Athens, Greece

C Chalkias, K Lasaridi - technology, 2009 - researchgate.net
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 …