title: Municipal solid waste management in Lahore City District, Pakistan.
abstract: This study deals with generation, composition, collection, transportation, and disposal, as well as the present cost of the waste management on the basis of 60% collection of the total waste and the cost of proposed improved system of management on the basis of 100% waste collection using the IWM-2 LCI model. A GIS map of Data Ganj Bakhsh Town (DGBT) of Lahore City District showing communal storage facilities is also provided. DGBT has a population of 1,624,169 living in 232,024 dwellings. The total waste generated per year is 500,000 tons, or 0.84/kg/cap/day. Presently 60% of the MSW is collected and disposed in open dumps, while 40% is not collected and lies along roadsides, streets railway lines, depressions, vacant plots, drains, storm drains and open sewers. In DGBT, 129 containers of 5-m(3) capacity, 120 containers of 10-m(3) capacity and 380 skips of 2.5-m(3) capacity are placed for waste collection. The overall collection and disposal cost of the MSW of DGBT is $3,177,900/yr, which is $10.29/ton. Modeling was conducted using the IWM-2 model for improved collection and disposal on the basis of 100% service, compared to the current 60% service. The modelled cost is $8.3/per ton, which is 20% less than the present cost, but the overall cost of 100% collection and disposal increases to $4,155,737/yr.
authors.affiliation: Department of Space Science, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. aadila_batool@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Syeda Adila
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Batool
authors.forename: Muhammad Nawaz
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Ch
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D018803:Models, Economic; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D010154:Pakistan; D018505:Waste Management / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data