Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 2 (1998), Issue 1, Pages 23-50
doi:10.1155/S1173912698000029
A decision support system for regional hazardous waste management alternatives
1Institute of Technology & Engineering, SST 4.29, Massey University, New Zealand
2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, CA, USA
Copyright © 1998 Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Stephen E. Jacobsen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
With the passage of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the
subsequent amendments to RCRA, efforts to provide tighter controls on the transportation and
disposal of hazardous waste have been steadily gaining ground. This paper, intended as a decision
support tool for regional planning, incorporates information on the hazardous waste generation,
treatment capacity and the costs of waste treatment alternatives into an optimization problem
of finding the relationship between governing agency and the toxic waste producing firms. As an
example, we consider the problem of regional hazardous waste in the San Francisco Bay Area in
Northern California.