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Biblioteca Location set covering for waste resource recycling centers in Taiwan

Location set covering for waste resource recycling centers in Taiwan

Location set covering for waste resource recycling centers in Taiwan

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Date of publication
Diciembre 2011
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201600002573
Pages
979-985

The efficiency of Taiwan's waste management and resource recycling systems has been well recognized in recent years, but the present model used to locate recycling centers and to assign collection depots to those centers continues to show low efficiency. To address this issue, the study herein suggests implementing a new location-planning and assignment model to reduce the number of existing recycling centers. Such a reduction would reduce the use of land resources. Moreover, the total transportation distance would decrease through the efficient assignment of collection depots to recycling centers. On the basis of results from previous studies, this study proposes a 2-stage location set covering problem–P-median integrated model that obtains exact solutions using heuristic algorithms on the basis of set operations. The results of numerical analyses show that the model introduced in this study is effective in solving the problems stated above as well as in improving the layout of Taiwan's existing recycling centers.

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Ye, Lin
Ye, Chunming
Chuang, Yi-Fei

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