A bi-objective model for the capacity and location of landfills for municipal solid wastes

• Main Authors: Emad Sane-Zerang, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Hossein Heydarian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iran University of Science & Technology 2016-09-01
• Series: International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research
• Subjects: Solid waste management; Landfill location; Transfer station; Material recovery facilities; Capacity allocation
• Online Access: http://ijiepr.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-176-10&slc_lang=en&sid=1

This paper considers a bi-objective mathematical model for locations of landfills, transfer stations and material recovery facilities (MRFs) in order to serve the entire regions and simultaneously identify the capacities of landfills. This is a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model, whose objectives are to minimize the total cost and pollution simultaneously. To validate the model, a numerical example is solved an augmented ε-constraint method and the associated computational results are presented to show the number of solid waste facilities and location of sites for solid waste facilities.