Municipal Solid Waste Management in Smart Cities: Facility Location of Community Bins

India is moving towards development of smart cities which requires a marked improvement in Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) to provide a clean and aesthetically appealing environment specifically in urban agglomerations. Presently India is producing around 65 million tones of municipal solid waste annually and 80% of which is dumped simply on the open ground. Even after the Solid waste management rules 2016 comes into effect there is no marked improvement in the waste management. The use of technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and adopting a policy of smart waste – smart resources it is possible to create more robust Sustainable solid waste management systems. IoT is a concept that connects numerous and various physical objects to the internet with the help of sensors and other wireless technologies, conceptually the process of connecting different types of devices extracting the data from them to perform an action in the context of data read. With Swatch Bharath, Clean India mission and the development of Smart cities projects the government of India is offering and encouraging a phenomenal change in waste management policies and action plans with an objective to make the waste management technically feasible, environmentally and financially sustainable. In the present study an assessment of existing waste management scenario was carried out for the semi urban location, Annamalai Nagar Special town Panchayat of Cuddalore District in Tamilnadu state. IoT based waste management has been proposed, the ill effects of the present waste management practices and likely benefits of the application of technology enhanced IoT based waste management have been compared for the real time waste management system.

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Interval-valued facility location model: An appraisal of municipal solid waste management system

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.09.233 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 171 ◽

pp. 250-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Vinay Yadav ◽

Subhankar Karmakar ◽

A.K. Dikshit ◽

A.K. Bhurjee

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Facility Location ◽

Management System ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Waste Management System ◽

Interval Valued ◽

Solid Waste Management System

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A facility location model for municipal solid waste management system under uncertain environment

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.207 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 603-604 ◽

pp. 760-771 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Vinay Yadav ◽

A.K. Bhurjee ◽

Subhankar Karmakar ◽

A.K. Dikshit

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Facility Location ◽

Management System ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Location Model ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Waste Management System ◽

Solid Waste Management System

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Sustainable municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in the smart cities in Indian context

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management ◽

10.1108/ijppm-10-2021-0588 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Vikas Thakur ◽

Dibya Jyoti Parida ◽

Vivek Raj

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Real Life ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Interpretive Structural Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Healthcare Facilities

PurposeSmart cities in India are going to be a reality very soon by turning challenges into opportunities for the society. However, due to rapid increase in population burden, fast urbanization and growing demand of advanced services in the smart cities, the quantity of per capita municipal solid waste (MSW) has escalated. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has further challenged the municipal solid waste management (MSWM) system with the increasing amount of infectious wastes coming from households (HHs), quarantine centers, healthcare facilities, vaccination centers, etc. Therefore, the present study attempts to explore and analyze the various dimensions of sustainable MSWM system in the smart cities.Design/methodology/approachThe study identifies 13 factors of sustainable MSWM system from the literature, field surveys and stakeholders' opinions. Thereafter, stakeholders' opinions are collected and analyzed using total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) approach to explore the interrelationships among the factors of sustainable MSWM system. These relationships are further validated through the empirical investigation of the real-life case study of Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC), Odisha, India.FindingsThe TISM approach places all 13 factors into six levels in the hierarchical digraph depending upon the inputs received from the various stakeholders on their interrelationships. Study also validates the proposed TISM model by collecting the data of RMC, Odisha, on the development of MSWM system over the period of 2015–2021.Practical implicationsThe study also highlights various implications for the other developing cities and stakeholders to set up the roadmap for developing the sustainable MSWM system. Study defines “IT platform” and “awareness among citizens” as the base of the sustainable MSWM system in any smart city.Originality/valueThe present study is the first of its kind to explore the interrelationships among the factors of sustainable MSWM system by using TISM approach. Moreover, the proposed TISM framework is further validated through the empirical journey of one of the smart cities in India.

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