Title:An Integrated Procedure for Improved Solution of Landfill Siting Problems Part Two: Case Study
VOLUME: 2 ISSUE: 2
Author(s):Alexander P. Economopoulos
Affiliation:Environmental Engineering Department, Technical University of Crete, Chania 731 00, Greece.
Keywords:Crete, final waste disposal, landfill siting with social acceptance, MSW disposal, MSW management, MSW
treatment plant siting.
Abstract:The paper presents a full-scale application of an integrated landfill siting procedure, which
is able to introduce all criteria that affect the site suitability into the decision-making process. In the
first step of this procedure, a GIS model, able to perform area elimination operations, was used for
identifying 11 sites of adequate size that satisfied all tangible elimination criteria represented by
thematic maps. In the second step, which involved site-specific GIS analysis and site inspections, 8 of
the above sites were eliminated based on tangible criteria that could not be represented by thematic
maps, mainly due to potential nuisance problems. In the third step, the cost of waste transportation to
each of the remaining sites was calculated. In the fourth step, the ground was prepared for the
consensual selection of one site by the Local Authorities (LAs) based of intangible criteria, including the sociopolitical
ones. In the course of this study, data and information were generated that are useful for other study areas, and the
advantages of the integrated procedure, notably ease of use, reduced subjectivity of results, and solutions that maximize
the consensus of all parties involved, were verified.
