Abstract
Waste centralized treatment in aggregated area is effective in control of dioxins emission, waste recycling, minimization of treatment costs and environmental impacts. Since the amount of environmental impacts and traffic loads depend on population distribution in the target area, the best size of target area is supposed to exist. In this study, we developed an evaluation model for the waste centralized treatment, and represented the change in each evaluation factor, such as total cost, environmental impacts (CO2, NOx and SOx) and traffic loads, as a function of the area aggregation size. Moreover, the best aggregation size for virtual target area with typical population distribution was evaluated.
