Optimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Problem with Composting Plants: The case of Ilala Municipality

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dc.creatorMbido, Kahebo
dc.creatorAllen, Mushi
dc.creatorEgbert, Mujuni
dc.date2018-09-05T12:07:17Z
dc.date2018-09-05T12:07:17Z
dc.date2013-08-01
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-03T13:36:18Z
dc.date.available2021-05-03T13:36:18Z
dc.descriptionSolid Waste Management is one of the critical environmental challenges for quick urban developing countries. It involves a number of problems that requires optimization techniques for better decision making. These include the selection of collection points, disposal sites, and vehicle routing mechanisms. This paper addresses the problem of optimization of solid waste systems which involves the use of composting plants as a strategy in environmental management. A mathematical programming model is developed and tested on real data from Ilala Municipal in Dar es Salaam Tanzania. The formulated model resulted into lower transportation cost from sources to collection points, composting plant and landfill compared to previous results. Furthermore, it has been observed that construction of composting plants can provide extra income through sales of recyclable materials and compost manure and thereby reduce the overall system’s running cost.
dc.identifier2320 - 2602
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4775
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4775
dc.languageen
dc.publisheral., International Journal of Advances in Computer Science and Technology
dc.relationVol. 8;2
dc.subjectSolid Waste Management, Combinatorial Optimization, Integer Programming
dc.titleOptimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management Problem with Composting Plants: The case of Ilala Municipality
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Reviewed

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