Modelling and evaluating municipal solid waste management strategies in a mega-city: the case of Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City is a large city that will become a mega-city in the near future. The city struggles with a rapidly increasing flow of municipal solid waste and a foreseeable scarcity of land to continue landfilling, the main treatment of municipal solid waste up to now. Therefore, additional municipal solid waste treatment technologies are needed. The objective of this article is to support decision-making towards more sustainable and cost-effective municipal solid waste strategies in developing countries, in particular Vietnam. A quantitative decision support model is developed to optimise the distribution of municipal solid waste from population areas to treatment plants, the treatment technologies and their capacities for the near future given available infrastructure and cost factors.
Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam lethikimoanh@vanlanguni.edu.vn.
Le
L
ThiKimOanh
Operations Research and Logistics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Jacqueline M
JM
Bloemhof-Ruwaard
Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Joost Cl
JC
van Buuren
Operations Research and Logistics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Jack Gaj
JG
van der Vorst
Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Wim H
WH
Rulkens
D002947:Cities; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003906:Developing Countries; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012037:Refuse Disposal; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D014744:Vietnam; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*
D062611:Solid Waste
Vietnam; Waste management; cost; decision support; modelling; municipal solid waste; treatment technology