Department of Environmental Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Waste Manag Res. 2013 May;31(5):435-46. doi: 10.1177/0734242X13476744. Epub 2013 Feb 26.
Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is an important, practical and challenging environmental subject. The processes of a MSWM system include household collection, transportation, treatment, material recycling, compost and disposal. A regional program of MSWM is more complicated owing to the involvement of multi-municipality and multi-facility issues. Therefore, an effective decision support system capable of solving regional MSWM problems is necessary for decision-makers. This article employs linear programming techniques to establish a MSWM decision support system (MSWM-DSS) that is able to determine the least costs of regional MSWM strategies. The results of investigating a real-world case in central Taiwan indicate that a regional program is more economical and efficient. For the redeployment of MSW streams, the relatively least cost of operation for the MSWM system can still be achieved through the re-estimation of the MSWM-DSS. This tool and results are useful for MSWM policy-making in central Taiwan.
城市固体废物管理（MSWM）是一个重要的、实际的和具有挑战性的环境主题。MSWM 系统的过程包括家庭收集、运输、处理、物质回收、堆肥和处置。由于涉及到多个城市和多个设施的问题，区域 MSWM 计划更加复杂。因此，决策者需要一个能够解决区域 MSWM 问题的有效决策支持系统。本文采用线性规划技术建立了一个能够确定区域 MSWM 策略最低成本的 MSWM 决策支持系统（MSWM-DSS）。对台湾中部一个实际案例的调查结果表明，区域规划更加经济高效。对于 MSW 流的重新部署，通过重新估算 MSWM-DSS，仍可以实现 MSWM 系统的相对最低运营成本。该工具和结果可用于台湾中部的 MSWM 决策。
