Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Network analysis based designing for a municipal solid waste collection and transportation system

Author(s):

Farzad Taghizadeh^*, Taghi Safavian

Recieved Date: 2011-06-18, Accepted Date: 2011-10-08

Abstract:

Considering that the highest expenditure of municipal solid waste management is related to maintenance, collection and transportation, the increasing waste production as well as the failure and problems of municipal solid waste transportation system increase economic and environmental costs in this sector. Currently, the most logical and least costly way to avoid wasting time and money as well as preventing pollution occurred through transportation of waste to landfills, is application of engineering principles to design a maintenance, collection and transportation system properly. The current maintenance, collection and transportation system of Ardebil City (a relatively populated city of the north-west of Iran) has lot of defects and problems that need to be fixed through engineered system design. Hence, in research ahead, using engineering principles, formulas and techniques in designing collection and transportation system for municipal solid waste, the transportation system was designed for Ardebil City regarding the available facilities. By implementing the proposed municipal waste collection and transportation system, while increasing the efficiency and saving money, lot of current problems related to required facilities and manpower will be fixed in Ardebil.

Keywords:

Maintenance, collection routs, municipal solid waste, Ardebil City

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Journal: Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Year: 2011
Volume: 9
Issue: 3&4
Category: Environment
Pages: 758-762

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