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WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH
Volume 34, Issue 10, Pages 1054-1063Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X16658363
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Municipal solid waste; waste transfer station; multi-criteria decision analysis; GIS; waste management system; selection criteria
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The increase in the quantity of municipal solid waste generated as a result of population growth in most urban areas has resulted in the difficulty of locating suitable land areas to be used as landfills. To curb this, waste transfer stations are used. The Kumasi Metropolitan Area, even though it has an engineered landfill, is faced with the problem of waste collection from the generation centres to the final disposal site. Thus in this study, multi-criteria decision analysis incorporated into a geographic information system was used to determine potential waste transfer station sites. The key result established 11 sites located within six different sub-metros. This result can be used by decision makers for site selection of the waste transfer stations after taking into account other relevant ecological and economic factors.
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