Study on Waste Transportation and Appropriate Allocation of Recycling Facility by Spatial Distribution of Waste Discharge

Abstract

A waste recycling network consists of collection, transportation, recycle and so on. But each process uses new energy or resource and the waste recycling is possible to bring about an increase of environmental load. In this study, to realize the waste recycling process to design a new society with low environmental load, 3 matters were investigated; 1) grasp of spatial distribution of waste discharge, 2) transportation between waste discharge site and recycling facility and 3) allocation of recycling facility in region that a energy consumption in waste transportation is minimized and treatment volume per recycling facility is appropriate.