Track: Waste Management

Abstract

Solid waste management comprises all efforts geared towards solid waste collection, transportation, recovery, recycling and processing. Studies have shown that developing Countries still grapple with very poor waste management practices. This occurs as a result of poor planning and scheduling, ranging from collection techniques and transportation from the dumpsters to the landfill centers. Lack of timeous solid waste collection and disposal planning and control measures can result in excessive dumpster overflows on one hand. The other extreme of having dumpsters premature for evacuation is also possible. This paper reviews current statues of municipal solid waste collection and disposal control strategies. Over thirty five research articles carefully selected from peer reviewed journals with very high impact were utilized for the research. The major interest was to ascertain different approaches to solid waste management, with more emphases on municipal solid waste generation, collection, and transportation techniques. The result show that there still exist significant gaps between the waste management endeavors suggested in past literatures and the approaches that can be tailored to specific developing locations, for which what obtains currently cannot handle appreciably. This is with due regards to availability of good models of the kind, but developed for advanced economies. The results show that a robust solid waste management model that can take the differences in “maturity for disposal time” of waste collection cans and dumpsters into account should be explored for Municipalities. The proposed study should also consider consistency with the traveling salesman approach, in other to ensure optimal traveling distances, which can translate to effective cost. Keywords: Solid waste management, past literatures, planning, municipality, model