scholarly journals Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Site Selection Using Remote Sensing Technology and AHP Process (Case Study: Khesht city, Fars Province, Iran)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Abdulmannan Rouhani
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Landfill Site ◽  
Disposal Site ◽  
Fars Province ◽  
Solid Waste Disposal ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
High Consistency

The design and implementation of the municipal waste management system aim to solve the urban issues and ultimately contribute to the citizens' health and welfare. The first step in this system is to select a site for the safe disposal of wastes. This survey aimed to select the most suitable landfill site for municipal solid waste using the geographic information system (GIS) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model following the environmental, economic, and engineering criteria. Therefore, by reviewing the literature and backgrounds, the parameters required for locating the landfill site were extracted, and the most important ones (15 sub-criteria) were selected and divided into four groups. The results showed that the sub-criterion of distance to the river with the weight of 0.218 was identified as the most critical parameter, followed by groundwater depth. In this way, the flooding parameter with the weight of 0.010 was considered the least important variable. In addition, it was found that the moderate suitability class with 50% of the area had the highest area, and the very high suitability with 0.8% had the lowest area. The inconsistency rate was equal to 0.04, which illustrates the high consistency of matrices. Then, the overlaying was carried out, and three sites were determined as the best place for a landfill in Khesht county.

Interpretation of Resistivity Piezocone Tests in a Contaminated Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Site

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 102561
Author(s):  
L. D. Suits ◽  
T. C. Sheahan ◽  
Giulliana Mondelli ◽  
Heraldo Luiz Giacheti ◽  
John A. Howie
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Disposal Site ◽  
Solid Waste Disposal ◽  
Waste Disposal Site

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

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161 ◽  
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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