Improving the Organization of Waste Management Sites: Simulation-Based Analysis

Improving the Organization of Waste Management Sites: Simulation-Based Analysis

Elad Harison, Arkady Cherkassky, Ofer Barkai
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/IJESGT.2021070105
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Abstract

Waste management (WM) sites operate a broad scope of processes and activities that involve treatment of industrial and private waste and its recycling and landfilling. The paper applies discrete event simulation (DES) methods to assess the performance of different configurations of WM sites, as means for improving their productivity, efficiency, and organization. The authors evaluate the functioning and performance of WM sites under various real-world scenarios, such as different waste arrival times, changes of the volume of waste due to population growth, changes in the shares of different recycled materials due to increasing awareness and public campaigns. The results of the model can serve policymakers, environmentalists, and WM site managers in utilizing their existing facilities to improve both productivity and recycling and thereby reduce waste.
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Waste management includes a broad variety of logistics and production-related operations, including collection, transportation, processing, recycling, disposal, and monitoring of waste. The collection and transportation of waste involve fairly simple operational steps, which differ from the procedures of treating hazardous and non-hazardous waste. The processing operations involve logistics and production activities with a more complex organization of the WMS. The productivity, as well as the internal operations of waste processing, may change from one WMS to another, based on the composition of waste elements and materials, the technological capabilities of each WMS and its overall planning and work procedures.

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