Exploring Criteria to Locate Solid Waste Transfer Station in an Urban Area

Suitable site selection for transfer stations in a solid waste management system using analytical hierarchy process as a multi-criteria decision analysis: a case study in Azuay-Ecuador

“…Rathore and Sarmah (2019) reveal a transportation cost reduction by using a TS when the distance between FDS and generating nodes is higher than 15 km. The proposed GCs spatial calculation marks a substantial improvement about Bosompem et al (2016), Chang and Lin (1997), Jaiswal and Bharat (2016), Perdomo and Ramirez (2011), Rafiee et al (2011), and Varón et al (2015, where generating nodes are considered, which can be urban areas perse or its centroid. Here, GCs are equilibrium points based on population density, daily generation, and per capita generation, fundamental variables in MSW analysis.…”

“…The searching keywords used were sanitary landfills, TSs, and MSW facilities in general, owing to some criteria playing similar roles in those infrastructures. However, the study area has not presented scientific-related studies; thus, the review had to extend to 28 scientific manuscripts from different geographical contexts (Habibi et al, 2017;Hariz et al, 2017;Josimović et al, 2015;Khadivi & Ghomi, 2012;Kumar et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2018;Roé et al, 2014;Shi et al, 2019;Tavares et al, 2011;Thampi & Rao, 2015;Yalcinkaya, 2020;Cobos et al, 2017;Moeinaddini et al, 2010;Rahimi et al, 2020;Singh & Vidyarthi, 2008;Bosompem et al, 2016;Chang and Lin, 1997;Chatzouridis & Komilis, 2012;Gil & Kellerman, 1993;Jaiswal & Bharat, 2016;Mantzaras & Voudrias, 2017;Perdomo & Ramirez, 2011;Rafiee et al, 2011;Rathore & Sarmah, 2019;Varón et al, 2015;Yadav et al, 2016Yadav et al, , 2018 2002). Thirty-four criteria were evidenced such as (they are named in order to the highest to the lowest frequency): distance from roads (A), distance from populated areas (B), distance from rivers (C), distance from protected natural areas (D), slopes (E), distance from generating nodes (F), unstable zones (G), land use (H), geology (I), basic services availability (J), weather (K), distance from the power grid (L), transportation costs (M), distance from tourist sites and churches (N), type of property (O), amount of MSW generated (P), public health effects (Q), groundwater (R), distance from health centers (S), water bodies (T), airports (U), distance from educational centers (V), distance to landfills (W), hydrocarbon or conduction infrastructure (X), job opportunities (Y), elevation (Z), soil permeability (Aa), waste type (Ab), public acceptability (Ac), child population density (Ad), coverture level (Ae), industrial areas (Af), soil com...…”

Dispersion modeling and health risk assessment of VOCs emissions from municipal solid waste transfer station in Tehran, Iran

“…During past recent decades, broad studies there have been conducted on the VOC levels and scenarios such as atmospheric and industrial environment as well as vehicle sources [ 1 , 6 – 8 ], but only a few studies are available about reactivity contributions of VOC spreaded from waste transfer stations (WTSs). Transfer station is a facility which is used to store waste temporarily in regions near to urban areas [ 9 ]. WTSs have bad influences on neighborhoods and personnel like noise and emissions of bad odors relating to solid waste and oil of the transfer vehicles [ 9 ].…”

“…Transfer station is a facility which is used to store waste temporarily in regions near to urban areas [ 9 ]. WTSs have bad influences on neighborhoods and personnel like noise and emissions of bad odors relating to solid waste and oil of the transfer vehicles [ 9 ]. The aim of this research is to assess VOCs emission from WTSs in Tehran and to depict VOCs dispersion modeling based on relative softwares.…”