During the last two decades, EU legislation has put increasing pressure on member
countries to achieve specified recycling targets for municipal household waste. These …

Lately, the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) in the city, known as City VRP, has gained
popularity with its importance in city logistics. Similar to city logistics, City VRP mainly differs …

Waste collection widely depends on the route optimization problem that involves a large
amount of expenditure in terms of capital, labor, and variable operational costs. Thus, the …

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is known as one of the most crucial activities in
municipalities that requires large amounts of fixed/variable and investment costs. The …

Waste collection is an important part of waste management that involves different issues,
including environmental, economic, and social, among others. Waste collection optimization …

This paper presents a review of the available literature on solid waste management
problems, with a particular focus on vehicle routing problems. The available papers are …

Abstract The field of “Sustainable Operations” and the term itself have arisen only in the last
ten to twenty years in the context of sustainable development. Even though the term is …

Sažetak Waste generation is an issue which has caused wide public concern in modern
societies, not only for the quantitative rise of the amount of waste generated, but also for the …

The generalized vehicle routing problem with time windows (GVRPTW) is defined on a
directed graph G=(V, A) where the vertex set V is partitioned into clusters. One cluster …

Commercial waste collection is an essential service requiring efficient and reliable provision
for customers. At the operational level, one of the most challenging problems is to design a …