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Location of recycling depots with GIS

Tsanis Giannis, B. Baetz , C. Valeo

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/2E4A54EB-D190-4366-B3E2-B45BCE89B701
Year 1998
Type of Item Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
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Bibliographic Citation C. Valeo, B. Baetz, I. Tsanis, ”Location of recycling depots with GIS,” J. Urban Plann. Dev., vol. 124 no. 2,pp. 93–99.1998. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9488(1998)124:2(93) https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9488(1998)124:2(93)
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A location-allocation model contained within a geographic information systems (GIS) software package was used to design a recycling depot scheme for a community of 22,000 people. Considered a less expensive alternative to curbside recycling, the depot scheme would receive a variety of recyclable materials from the public on a voluntary basis. Depot sites were located using a model that maximized the coverage of a depot site, with constraints based on projected “recycler behavior.” Shopping centers, municipal parking lots, and roadside sites were candidate locations for recycling depots in the two modeled cases. A GIS-based approach is shown to be useful for determining the number and location of material recycling depots for use within an integrated municipal solid waste management system.

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