Sustainable fuzzy multi-trip location-routing problem for medical waste management during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Science of the Total Environment
Erfan Babaee TirkolaeeGerhard-Wilhelm Weber

Abstract

The performance of waste management system has been recently interrupted and encountered a very serious situation due to the epidemic outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). To this end, the handling of infectious medical waste has been particularly more vital than ever. Therefore, in this study, a novel mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed to formulate the sustainable multi-trip location-routing problem with time windows (MTLRP-TW) for medical waste management in the COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives are to concurrently minimize the total traveling time, total violation from time windows/service priorities and total infection/environmental risk imposed on the population around disposal sites. Here, the time windows play a key role to define the priority of services for hospitals with a different range of risks. To deal with the uncertainty, a fuzzy chance-constrained programming approach is applied to the proposed model. A real case study is investigated in Sari city of Iran to test the performance and applicability of the proposed model. Accordingly, the optimal planning of vehicles is determined to be implemented by the municipality, which takes 19.733 h to complete the processes of collection, tr...Continue Reading

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Feb 15, 2019·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Erfan Babaee TirkolaeeSeyed Ali Ghaffarian
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Mar 11, 2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Reza Zakaryaei TaloukiMohammad Mehdi Movahedi
Mar 25, 2021·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Nadi Serhan Aydın
Apr 5, 2021·Waste Management·Luiz Fernando Pereira BispoAnanias Francisco Dias Júnior
Apr 15, 2021·Annals of Operations Research·Alireza Bakhshi, Jafar Heydari
Jul 3, 2021·Journal of Environmental Management·Ankur Chauhan, Surya Prakash Singh
Aug 20, 2021·Waste Management & Research : the Journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA·Rana Negarandeh, Ali Tajdin
Aug 24, 2021·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment·Hassan El-RamadyYahya Eid
Sep 5, 2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Xueyun MeiYanjun Zhou
Sep 24, 2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Ali Ebadi TorkayeshErfan Babaee Tirkolaee
Oct 4, 2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Reza LotfiGerhard-Wilhelm Weber

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