Abstract

After the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, the project “Earthquake Waste Management Proposal in Mexico City” was launched, which includes the removal of waste from the disaster site to a temporary site separation, the last is a temporary storage and waste classification site, that is used before waste being sent to their respective recycling chains or for their proper final disposal. This work presents the optimal location of the temporary site based on the transportation model of Mixed Integer Linear Programming, which evaluates the average distance between the collapsed buildings caused by the earthquake and the sites authorized by the Government of the Mexico City, to select n temporary sites whose distance is minimal. The methodology of the present study includes the application of the transportation model, to case study earthquake of September 19 th , 2017 in Mexico City, considering next constraints: 14 collapse buildings, 8 possible sites according to official data provided, 1878.63 m3  (97.83 ton) earthquake waste generation according with previous estimations by the same Project and the location of a single temporary site. The results show that the minimum distance traveled between the points of origin and destination is 51% less than that of the farthest site.