Publication details
Integrated Model of Municipal Waste Management of the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. Modelling for Environment’s Sake |
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| web | Sbornik 2. dil |
| Field | Management and administrative |
| Keywords | integrated waste management model; municipal solid waste; waste management cost modelling |
| Description | An integrated model of municipal waste management of the Czech Republic was developed as a balanced network model for a set of municipal solid waste (MSW) sources (mostly municipalities) connected with a set of chosen waste treatment facilities processing their waste. The model involves composting, energy utilisation, material recycling, and land-filling. It is implemented as a combination of four sub-models (GIS transport sub-model, quantification and composition of MSW sub-models, cost economic sub-models of all facilities and sub-model optimizing greenhouse gases expressed as CO2 equivalent) and it is easily scalable. It enables the optimisation of environmental impacts (land-filling and greenhouse emissions). Its application is demonstrated in the case study as a decision support tool for the planning allocation of potential facilities of waste recovery instead of land-filling. |
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