Abstract: The scheduling and economies of scale for municipal landfill liner and leachate-collection system construction are commonly neglected in policy and planning studies, but are shown to significantly affect the economics of ...

Abstract: The feasibility, advantages, and problems of using linear‐programming methods in the preliminary analysis of central material‐recovery facilities are discussed and demonstrated. The design and operation of such facilities ...

Abstract: GIGO, a spreadsheet-based model of municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems is described. The model is intended for general system-level simulation consisting of linked detailed facility, process and cost models that ...