Optimizing the treatment and disposal of municipal solid wastes using mathematical programming—A case study in a Greek region

Environmental performance of household waste management in Europe - An example of 7 countries

“…The main fractions for the municipal waste composition (Food waste 28%, Garden waste 13%, Wood 5%, Paper/Cardboard 20.4%, Textiles1%, Glass 4.6%, Metals 4.2%, Plastics 13.4% and others 10.6%) were found in Gibbs et al (2014). They are very similar to the one found in Minoglou & Komilis (2013) taken from the Governmental Gazette published in 2003. The partition of "paper" between paper (85%) and cardboard (15%) was based on Minoglou & Komilis (2013).…”

“…They are very similar to the one found in Minoglou & Komilis (2013) taken from the Governmental Gazette published in 2003. The partition of "paper" between paper (85%) and cardboard (15%) was based on Minoglou & Komilis (2013). An average of the plastic composition in the municipality of Kos, in the Communities of Kos, in Chania and in the Municipality of Naxos (Theodoseli and Karagiannidis, 2004) was made and the plastic fraction was divided in 52% soft plastic, 9% PVC, 9% PET and 30% non-specified.…”

Recycling of Communal Waste: Current State and Future Potential for Sustainable Development in the EU

“…Development of waste and its use have been studied by a number of authors from various points of view [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41], discussing various aspects of the waste hierarchy [11].…”

“…Systems for solid waste management should be optimized and integrated [28]. Such optimizing of waste management could save costs for waste treatment.…”

Optimization of municipal solid waste collection and transportation routes

“…Municipal solid waste management is a multidisciplinary activity that includes generation, source separation, storage, collection, transfer and transportation, processing and recovery, and, last but not least, disposal Bovea et al, 2010;Gallardo et al, 2015;Rada, 2014;Minoglou and Komilis, 2013;Wagner and Bilitewski, 2009). In order to develop a sound material-cycle society, costeffective integrated municipal solid waste management system is required for the municipalities (Weng and Fujiwara, 2011;Consonni et al, 2011;Massarutto et al, 2011;Ionescu et al, 2013;Eriksson et al, 2014).…”