A bi objective model for the capacity and Location of land fills for municipal solid wastes

This paper considers a bi-objective mathematical model for locations of landfills, transfer stations, and material recovery facilities 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 was solved by an augmented ε-constraint method, and the associated computational results were presented to show the number of solid waste facilities and location of sites for solid waste facilities.

Keywords:

Solid waste management.Landfill location , Transfer station , Material recovery facilities , Capacity allocation