Bi-objective approach for designing a regional waste management system: A case study of Vojvodina (Serbia).

Autor: Ratković, Branislava, Dimitrijević, Branka, Popović, Dražen, Bjelić, Nenad
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Zdroj: Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy; Feb2023, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p303-311, 9p
Abstrakt: This article presents a bi-objective mixed-integer linear model for the waste management system design. Two types of facilities, landfills and transfer stations (TSs), are identified based on two objectives: minimising the total system's costs and the total negative impact of located facilities on end users as waste generators through a defined pollution decay function. Landfills and TSs are categorised as undesirable facilities due to associated environmental risks. In this article undesirability of a located facility is defined as a two-threshold linear decreasing function of the distance between the end users and the located facility. Also, we considered additional restrictions that no two selected landfills or TSs are within a pre-specified distance from each other, limiting the superimposed pollution generated in these facilities. The model performances are tested on a real-scale example for Vojvodina (Serbia). Results showed that the proposed model has potentials and can be beneficial for government organisations, local authorities and other organisations related to waste management issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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