Solid waste location and routing mathematical models: a survey

Today, Waste management is more important than in the past, because with the growing population and large-scale production in factories, consumption patterns have been changed and higher waste is produced. This paper provides a comprehensive review on papers that including of mathematical modeling in the field of urban waste. Mathematical models in peer-reviewed articles, is including of location the recycling and disposal centers, location the transfer stations and routing of vehicles for garbage collection. There are several objectives such as social, economic and environmental. Finally, by discovering unexplored areas of research, suggestions are presented for the future research.

Keywords:

Waste collection , Municipal solid waste management , Landfill location , Location-routing problem , Review