A Multi-landfill Site Selection Model for an Effective Solid Waste Management using Greedy Heuristic: A Case Study

Landfilling remains the most common systematic technique of solid waste disposal in most of the developed and developing countries. Finding a suitable site for landfill is a very challenging task. Landfill site selection process aims to provide suitable areas that will protect the environment and public health from pollution and hazards. Therefore, various factors such as environmental, physical, socio-economic, and geological criteria must be considered before siting any landfill. This makes the site selection process vigorous and tedious because it involves the processing of large amount of spatial data, rules and regulations from different agencies and also policy from decision makers. This allows the incorporation of conflicting objectives and decision maker preferences into spatial decision models. This paper particularly analyzes the multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) method of landfill site selection for solid waste management by means of literature reviews and surveys. The study will help the decision makers and waste management authorities to choose the most effective method when considering landfill site selection.

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Municipal solid waste management in Gachsaran county, Iran – landfill site selection

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management ◽

10.1680/jwarm.17.00029 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 171 (3) ◽

pp. 82-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ali Ferdowsi ◽

Masoud Ferdosi ◽

Mohammad Javad Mehrani

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Site Selection ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Landfill Site ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Landfill Site Selection

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GIS based environmental decision support system for municipal landfill site selection

Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal ◽

10.1108/meq-08-2012-0056 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 24 (5) ◽

pp. 583-598 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Anurag Ohri ◽

Prabhat Kumar Singh

Keyword(s):

Decision Support ◽

Waste Management ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Site Selection ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Landfill Site ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Landfill Site Selection ◽

Content Type ◽

Suitability Index

PurposeA GIS based environmental decision support system for municipal solid waste management under Indian socio‐economic and regulatory conditions, named as EDSS‐MSWI has been developed. This paper intends to report the methodology and application of the EDSS‐MSWI for municipal landfill site selection taking a case study of Varanasi city (India).Design/methodology/approachEDSS‐MSWI has been developed using VB.NET and ArcGIS Engine programming tools. A set of 13 criteria are selected for primary landfill site selection. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) has been used to give weights to different criteria. The criteria were aggregated and suitability index (S) is generated using weighted linear combination (WLC) technique in GIS environment. The suitability index (0‐10) values are classified into four categories (Excluded, Less Preferable, Suitable and Best Suitable) to select the landfill site.FindingsThe results indicate that there are at least four locations under the “best suitable” category where adequate land seems available for landfilling in Varanasi. It is found that GIS based multi‐criteria decision analysis (MCDA) can be a powerful tool for such applications.Research limitations/implicationsThe weights of different criteria have been based on the opinion of three experts only. This may involve subjectivity to that extent. Aggregation of more experts’ views may further refine the values of weights.Practical implicationsThe developed tool provides a helpful guide to solid waste management planners.Originality/valueThe development of EDSS‐MSWI is the first of its kind in India to consider all aspects of municipal solid waste management in a holistic way and present it in an independent software form.

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Municipal solid waste management and landfill site selection in Greece: irrationality versus efficiency

Global NEST Journal ◽

10.30955/gnj.000760 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 150-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Site Selection ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Landfill Site ◽

Waste To Energy ◽

Disposal Site ◽

Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽

Landfill Site Selection ◽

Msw Management

Municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal is a major problem of urban environment in the world today. MSW management solutions have to be technologically feasible, legally and socially acceptable and environmentally and financially sustainable. European policy is pushing to a rational management of natural resources; a promising technological perspective today is waste valorization, a process that becomes possible through sorting at the source, combined with material recycling and waste-to-energy methods. On the other hand, technologies like mechanical sorting, or disposal of MSW in landfills do not really improve MSW management efficiency. Landfills should become the ultimate disposal site of a few inert residuals from MSW valorization. Despite all this, conventional landfills for disposal of mixed MSW are still being constructed, with landfill site selection being a major social problem due to the lack of public acceptance; objectivity in landfill site selection is therefore extremely important. In Greece, we find several examples of inefficient MSW management and curious landfill site selection. In this paper, we criticize environmental policy issues for MSW management in Greece and identify weak points in the criteria used for the selection of landfill sites. We conclude that there is a real need for rational MSW management based on high quality scientific input.

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A Comprehensive Review of Environmental, Physical and Socio-Economic (EPSE) Criteria for Spatial Site Selection of Landfills in Malaysia

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.802.412 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 802 ◽

pp. 412-418 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Siti Zubaidah Ahmad ◽

Mohd Sanusi S. Ahamad ◽

Mohd Suffian Yusoff

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Municipal Solid Waste ◽

Solid Waste ◽

Site Selection ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Selection Process ◽

Bench Mark ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Landfill Site Selection ◽

Comprehensive Review

Location of municipal solid waste landfills in Malaysia has been attributed to causing bad odour, dust, litter, unattractive neighbourhoods, groundwater contamination, hazardous waste pollution and etc. Therefore, proper selection criteria are very important in preliminary siting of new landfill to avoid undesirable long-term effects. This article presents a comprehensive review of landfill spatial siting criteria and their frequency of occurrence (ranked order) found in literatures. The highest ranked criterion is the surface water and the lowest is climate/rainfall density. The dissimilarity in the criteria is found to be specifically influenced by published guidelines or policies from respective countries. In addition, group ranking of spatial criteria from frequency study made on Malaysian local literatures shows that wind factor and infrastructure (utilities) has never been considered in landfill site selection process here. These factors cannot be ignored because enhancing the condition of social, economic and environmental efficiency is part of promoting sustainable development. Subsequently, a benchmarking process of common environmental, physical and socio-economic (EPSE) criteria made with Malaysian landfill siting guideline; National Strategic Plan for Solid Waste Management and Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Treatment and Disposal Project. The bench mark process is useful for research references and its uniformity provides efficient site selection process in solid waste management.

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