Integrated Model and Program for Strategic Planning of Solid Municipal Waste (SMW) Management at a Regional and Local Level

Abstract

For comparison of alternative schemes of waste management and selection of optimal solution for concrete region, taking into account of quantitative defined economic and environmental consequences there is need use of mathematical analytical models, which are based on economic, environmental and integral approaches. Authors developed integrated (complex) model, considering life cycle of waste, management hierarchy and multi-purpose genetic algorithm as method of management. Given model includes different options of waste treatment at the each stage of life cycle: collection, transportation, sorting, transferring, treatment, composting, and incineration, disposal with recovery energy and without of its. Model was realized as software solution  MS Excel, available for general user, and that is allows to manager, investors and environmental monitoring agencies swiftly assess interesting for them final figures, compare existing and planned schemes of waste treatment, select optimal scheme and assess its quantitative, economic, energetic and environmental parameters. The article is designed for regional and local authorities, environmental monitoring agencies and investors in the field of SMW treatment.