Continuous-discrete simulation-based decision making framework for solid waste management and recycling programs

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Antmann ◽  
Xiaoran Shi ◽  
Nurcin Celik ◽  
Yading Dai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Discrete Simulation ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Decision Making Framework

scholarly journals A Hybrid Methodology to Study Stakeholder Cooperation in Circular Economy Waste Management of Cities

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1845
Author(s):  
P. Giovani Palafox-Alcantar ◽  
Dexter V. L. Hunt ◽  
Chris D. F. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Preference Order ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The Uk

Successful transitioning to a circular economy city requires a holistic and inclusive approach that involves bringing together diverse actors and disciplines who may not have shared aims and objectives. It is desirable that stakeholders work together to create jointly-held perceptions of value, and yet cooperation in such an environment is likely to prove difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to show how collaboration can be engendered, or discord made transparent, in resource decision-making using a hybrid Game Theory approach that combines its inherent strengths with those of scenario analysis and multi-criteria decision analysis. Such a methodology consists of six steps: (1) define stakeholders and objectives; (2) construct future scenarios for Municipal Solid Waste Management; (3) survey stakeholders to rank the evaluation indicators; (4) determine the weights for the scenarios criteria; (5) reveal the preference order of the scenarios; and (6) analyse the preferences to reveal the cooperation and competitive opportunities. To demonstrate the workability of the method, a case study is presented: The Tyseley Energy Park, a major Energy-from-Waste facility that treats over two-thirds of the Municipal Solid Waste of Birmingham in the UK. The first phase of its decision-making involved working with the five most influential actors, resulting in recommendations on how to reach the most preferred and jointly chosen sustainable scenario for the site. The paper suggests a supporting decision-making tool so that cooperation is embedded in circular economy adoption and decisions are made optimally (as a collective) and are acceptable to all the stakeholders, although limited by bounded rationality.

scholarly journals Assessment of maturity of reverse logistics as a strategy to sustainable solid waste management

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia C Peña-Montoya ◽  
Marina Bouzon ◽  
Patricia Torres-Lozada ◽  
Carlos Julio Vidal-Holguin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Holistic Vision

Small- and medium-sized enterprises primarily focus on their operations and rarely pay attention to issues related to sustainable solid waste management that originate from their production processes. A suitable strategy to support sustainable solid waste management is reverse logistics. Through the use of maturity models, it is possible to determine the grade to which small- and medium-sized enterprises are prepared to perform this strategy. This study proposes an adapted maturity model to measure maturity levels of reverse logistics aspects at small- and medium-sized enterprises in regions from Colombia in order to contribute to sustainable solid waste management. The maturity model was applied to seven small- and medium-sized enterprises in the plastics sector in the central and southern regions of Colombia by adapting a maturity model that was previously correlated to suggested drivers and barriers in this sector. Results show that maturity levels range from naïve to immature owing to the incipient development of reverse logistics in Colombia. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a holistic vision of the organisation to improve the reverse logistics decision-making process to achieve sustainable solid waste management.

Hybrid Simulation-Based Planning and Evaluation Framework for Solid Waste Management and Recycling Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
Xiaoran Shi ◽  
Eric D. Antmann ◽  
Nurcin Celik ◽  
Aristotelis E. Thanos ◽  
Breanna Hayton
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Hybrid Simulation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Recycling Systems

scholarly journals RSW-MCFP: A Resource-Oriented Solid Waste Management System for a Mixed Rural-Urban Area through Monte Carlo Simulation-Based Fuzzy Programming

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Li ◽  
H. J. Wu ◽  
B. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo Simulation ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Management System ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Fuzzy Programming ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Solid Waste Management System

The growth of global population and economy continually increases the waste volumes and consequently creates challenges to handle and dispose solid wastes. It becomes more challenging in mixed rural-urban areas (i.e., areas of mixed land use for rural and urban purposes) where both agricultural waste (e.g., manure) and municipal solid waste are generated. The efficiency and confidence of decisions in current management practices significantly rely on the accurate information and subjective judgments, which are usually compromised by uncertainties. This study proposed a resource-oriented solid waste management system for mixed rural-urban areas. The system is featured by a novel Monte Carlo simulation-based fuzzy programming approach. The developed system was tested by a real-world case with consideration of various resource-oriented treatment technologies and the associated uncertainties. The modeling results indicated that the community-based bio-coal and household-based CH4facilities were necessary and would become predominant in the waste management system. The 95% confidence intervals of waste loadings to the CH4and bio-coal facilities were 387, 450 and 178, 215 tonne/day (mixed flow), respectively. In general, the developed system has high capability in supporting solid waste management for mixed rural-urban areas in a cost-efficient and sustainable manner under uncertainty.

scholarly journals Municipal solid waste management decision-making during COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison between Brazil and Portugal

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. e19411124673
Author(s):  
Ana Teresa Rodrigues de Sousa ◽  
Susana Paixão ◽  
Marcos Paulo Gomes Mol
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Urban Waste Management

Decisions related to waste management were affected to contain the advance of the new coronavirus pandemic. Different measures have been adopted between countries around the world. This study aims to assess changes in decision-making on solid waste management in Brazil and Portugal during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the socioeconomic differences and the context of waste management in each country before the health crisis. A literature review was carried out on scientific bases, PubMed, Google Scholar and Web of Science. Differences were noted in decisions and guidelines for good practices in waste management, with measures being observed in a decentralized manner in Brazil, differently from what was observed in Portugal. In this way, the understanding of urban waste management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil becomes complex, in addition to the territorial extension and the diverse social composition, due to the decentralization of decision-making, while Portugal centralizes decisions related to waste management and has a smaller population and territorial extension.

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