Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies

Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies

A new multi-objective mathematical model for hazardous waste management considering social and environmental issues

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Masoud Rabbani 1
Saeed Danesh Shahraki 1
Hamed Farrokhi-Asl 2
Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim 3
1 School of Industrial Engineering, College of engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 School of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom & W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
10.22059/ijms.2018.263973.673269
Abstract
Hazardous waste management incorporates collection, separation, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous wastes. In this paper, a new multi-objective mixed integer model is presented for hazardous waste collection problem. The model aims to minimize transportation and construction costs, and environmental and population risks in hazardous waste management systems. This model is applied in a case study of Iran in order to help decision makers to decide on the location of separation, treatment, recycle, disposal centers, and established technology in treatment center. Moreover, this paper specifies routes between different facilities in collection network. For addressing population and environmental impacts and economical costs, three objective functions including total costs, total population exposure risk, and environmental risks are considered. An augmented ε-constraint method is used to generate Pareto optimal solution for these conflicting objectives. Finally, proposed model is utilized in our case study and numerical results and some managerial insights are provided.
Keywords
Hazardous waste management
Mixed integer programming
Augmented ε-constraint
Pareto solutions and Multi-objective optimization
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies
Volume 11, Issue 4
Autumn 2018
Pages 831-865