Hazardous waste landfill site selection in Khorasan Razavi Province, Northeastern Iran

Moghaddas, Nasser Hafezi; Namaghi, Hadi Hajizadeh

doi:10.1007/s12517-009-0083-8

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“…The land use of about 60% of the selected areas was moderate rangeland and other areas were barren lands and poor rangelands; none of these imposed restrictions on waste disposal. Also, unlike [23,28,29,31,32], in this research the wind patterns and directions were taken into account together with other criteria in order to select the best possible sites for waste disposal.…”

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“…Pandey et al [28] used an expert-based ranking method for the selection of a municipal solid waste landfill site in Bhagalpur, India. Moghaddas and Namaghi [29] used a ranking method to find suitable hazardous waste landfill sites in the Khorasan Razavi Province of Iran. Isalou et al [30] deployed fuzzy logic integrated into Analytical Network Process (ANP) in another region of Iran.…”

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Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

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Sustainable waste management, particularly in industrial areas, is one of the major challenges of developing countries. Among the important issues in the overall process of industrial wastes management is the necessity of suitable site selection for waste disposal. Considering the effects that the disposal sites exert on their surrounding ecosystem and environment, these sites should be located in places with the minimum destructive effects and the lowest environmental impacts. The aim of this research is to outline important criteria for industrial zone waste disposal site selection and to select optimal and proper disposal sites in the Salafchegan special economic zone. This region, as one of the most important industrial areas and closest to the country's political-economic center, enjoys a privileged and unique position for producing, exporting, and transiting goods and products. There are various parameters involved in the optimal selection of suitable industrial waste disposal sites. In this case study, issues such as the depth of groundwater, distance from surface-and groundwater, access routes, residential areas, industries, power transmission lines, flood-proneness, faults, slope, and distance from gardens and agricultural lands were taken into account. Following selection and preparation of the maps related to the influential parameters, assigning weights was done through the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and using expert comments. At this stage, the maps and weights related to them were introduced into an index overlay model to obtain new maps from combining the influential parameters. Thereafter, the areas with the first and second priorities were selected and out of each one, four sites were suggested for disposing of industrial wastes. The sites with the first and second priorities were specified as A1, A2, A3, and A4 and B1, B2, B3, and B4, respectively. The area, groundwater depth, distance from residential areas, distance from the Salafchegan special economic zone, the direction of the predominant wind, and the land use of the selected sites were also investigated.

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Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

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“…The primary criteria are recognized from literature review (Hekmat et al, 2008;Rosendal, 2009;Sener et al, 2010;Ekmekcioglu et al, 2010;Moghaddas & Namaghi, 2011;Munawar & Fellner, 2013) and a number of face to face interviews with expert team. After preliminary screening and discussion with the expert team, the most important criteria are determined.…”

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Proposing a New Model for Waste Dump Site Selection: Case Study of Ayerma Phosphate Mine

Shariati

Yazdani-Chamzini

Salsani

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The purpose of developing a mining project is to meet the demand for metals and minerals resources. This is obviously connected with the generation of a considerable volume of waste. However, one of the most important strategies in waste management is to select the optimum waste dump site. To face with this problem, managers go in search of the techniques that not only can consider the technical and economic factors but also take into account environmental aspects to get a better perspective on the problem under consideration. The merit of using multicriteria decision making (MCDM) model is to consider different criteria. One of the most standard techniques used for the formulation of a complex problem under different criteria is Additive Ratio ASsessment (ARAS). In this paper, the ARAS based group decision making (GARAS) for evaluating the possible alternatives under partial or incomplete information is proposed. The proposed model contains three main stages: (i) identifying the main and sub-criteria, (ii) evaluating the feasible alternative by using fuzzy GARAS technique, and (iii) conducting a sensitivity analysis to determine how the importance weights influence the process of the decision making. To demonstrate the potential application of the proposed model, a real case study is illustrated. The strength of the proposed model is its effectiveness and capability to produce proper solutions under the inherent uncertainty involved in the process of modeling a real-life problem.

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“…In selecting a new landfill site, all important criteria, including environmental, economic, and social elements, must be considered in the preliminary screening and landfill suitability assessment phase. Nevertheless, the criteria used may differ between research as they rely on the type of landfill (municipal or hazardous), as well as physical and ecological conditions of the research areas (Moghaddas & Namaghi, 2011;Bahrani et al, 2016). In fact, a comprehensive study carried out by Mat et al (2016) reported the varied landfill selection criteria across many nations.…”

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Nearest Greedy Algorithm for Solving a Single Landfill Site Selection With Resource Requirements

Mat¹,

Benjamin²,

Abdul-Rahman³

2020

J. Sustain. Sci. Manage.

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Landfill site selection has appeared to be an important waste management issue for future landfill planning. The selection of suitable landfill sites involves several alternative sites, along with evaluation criteria. Previously, most studies solved the landfill site selection problem by using the geographic information systems (GIS) and the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. GIS is used to identify suitable sites for a new landfill, while MCDM is used to rank the candidate sites based on the score calculated for each site. With that this paper presents a new approach that ranks the related candidate sites. These candidate sites were ranked based on several vital resource requirements, such as total travel distance to transport collected waste to the landfill, number of vehicles/ drivers required for the collection and total working hours of drivers affect the operating cost of the selected landfill. To be precise, all requirements as described above have been provided when a particular site is selected as the new landfill. These resources are identified by using the heuristic technique, namely nearest greedy. This approach was further tested on a benchmark problem set, namely waste collection vehicle routing problem with time windows. The results serve to aid the waste management team to select the most suitable location for landfill siting, besides listing the influential resource requirements for landfill site selection planning in selecting a new landfill site.

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Hazardous waste landfill site selection in Khorasan Razavi Province, Northeastern Iran

Cited by 37 publications

References 8 publications

Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

Proposing a New Model for Waste Dump Site Selection: Case Study of Ayerma Phosphate Mine

Nearest Greedy Algorithm for Solving a Single Landfill Site Selection With Resource Requirements

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