Economic Evaluation of a Regionalization Program for Solid Waste Management in a Metropolitan Region

Examining the effectiveness of municipal solid waste management systems: An integrated cost–benefit analysis perspective with a financial cost modeling in Taiwan

“…In recent decades, the financial MSW cost functions have been established for a variety of application on MSW management (Haddix, 1975;Chang and Wang, 1995;Huang et al, 1995;Chang and Lin, 1997;Callan and Thomas, 2001;Weng and Chang, 2001;Li and Huang, 2006;Wu et al, 2006;Chang and Davila, 2007;Xu et al, 2009).…”

“…Facing the rapid lifestyle changes as well as the various options of waste technologies and policy measures, there is an essential need to develop integrated evaluation criteria that evaluate and design MSW management systems with regard to the related environmental impacts. For this reason, the development of accounting systems for MSW management (or cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for MSW management) have called considerable attention in recent decades on examining the effectiveness of established MSW management systems (Haddix, 1975;Gunnerson and Jones, 1984;Goddard, 1995;Chang and Lin, 1997;Miranda and Hale, 1997;US EPA, 1997;Garcia, 1999;Lee et al, 2004;Consonni et al, 2005;Begum et al, 2006;Hogg and Eunomia Research & Consulting, 2006;Eshet et al, 2007;Finnveden et al, 2007;Bel and Warner, 2008;El-Hamouz, 2008;Moutavtchi et al, 2008;Pickin, 2008;Zotos et al, 2009;Lavee, 2010). Positive and negative impacts involving MSW management systems are attempted to be simultaneously evaluated from the life-cycle perspective in the studies.…”

Compromising economic cost and air pollutant emissions of municipal solid waste management strategies by fuzzy multiobjective optimization model

“…It is necessary to employ mathematical models to assist decision makers sufficiently in operating such a multiprocess MSWM system. Some studies have applied deterministic mathematical programming (DMP) techniques to establish the optimization models that minimize the costs of MSWM systems, such as linear programming (LP) (Chang and Chang, 1998;Harrison et al, 2001;Abou Najm and EI-Fadel, 2004;Lin et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2008;Chang et al, 2012) and mixed integer linear programming (MILP) (Chang and Lin, 1997;Maqsood et al, 2004;Chang et al 2005;Badran and ElHaggar, 2006;Xanthopoulos and Iakovou, 2009). …”

An economic evaluation and assessment of environmental impact of the municipal solid waste management system for Taichung City in Taiwan

“…For sustainable MSWM strategies, the critical management factors to be considered include not only economic efficiency of MSW treatment but also its life-cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental impact. Some of the past studies have focused on mathematical programming (MP) techniques to be applied in the MSWM system, such as linear programming (LP) to achieve least-cost strategies with suitable constraint sets (Abou Najm and El-Fadel, 2004;Chang and Chang, 1998;Harrison et al, 2001;Lin et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2008), and mixed integer linear programming (MILP) to assess a feasible location and the capacity of new facilities in least-cost MSWM problems (Badran and El-Haggar, 2006;Chang and Lin, 1997;Chang et al, 2005;Xanthopoulos and Iakovou, 2009). Other programming techniques such as intervalparameter programming (Huang et al, 1992;Liu et al, 2009;Maqsood et al, 2004;Sun and Huang, 2010;Xu et al, 2009), probabilistic programming (Liu et al, 2009), fuzzy programming (Liu et al, 2009;Sun and Huang, 2010;Wang et al, 2011), stochastic programming (Wang et al, 2011;Xu et al, 2009), and quadratic programming have also been integrated into LP or MILP to obtain optimal strategies of MSWM whose parameters encounter uncertainties.…”

“…Up to now, the previous MSWM studies only evaluated individual aspects of economical optimization (Abou Najm and El-Fadel, 2004;Badran and El-Haggar, 2006;Chang and Chang, 1998;Chang and Lin, 1997;Chang et al, 2005;Harrison et al, 2001;Huang et al, 1992;Li et al, 2011;Lin et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2009;Maqsood et al, 2004;Sun and Huang, 2010;Wang et al, 2008Wang et al, , 2011Xanthopoulos and Iakovou, 2009;Xu et al, 2009) and environmental impact (Aye and Widjaya, 2006;Eriksson et al, 2005;Finnveden et al, 2005;Mendes et al, 2004;Mohareb et al, 2008;Thorneloe et al, 2007;Zhao et al, 2009). The integration of economic factors and environmental impacts is seldom discussed.…”