A CASE STUDY OF REGIONAL MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMIN TAIWAN

摘要

Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is an important, practical and challenging environmental subject. Regionalization of MSWM program is more complicated due to the involvement of multi-municipality and multi-facility issues. Therefore, an effective technique capable of solving regional MSWM problems is necessary for decision makers. This paper employed linear programming techniques to establish a optimization model which is able to achieve regional MSWM strategies with the minimum costs. The results of investigating a real world case study in central Taiwan indicate that regionalization of MSWM program is more economical and efficient.