E. Bruno and F. Lacarbonara and M. C. Placentino and D. Gramegna
MultiCriteria Decision Analysis in Planning of AsbestosContaining Waste Management
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2013
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International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13966
https://publications.waset.org/vol/77
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Environmental decision making, particularly about
hazardous waste management, is inherently exposed to a high
potential conflict, principally because of the tradeoff between sociopolitical,
environmental, health and economic factors. The need to
plan complex contexts has led to an increasing request for decision
analytic techniques as support for the decision process. In this work,
alternative systems of asbestoscontaining waste management
(ACW) in Puglia (Southern Italy) were explored by a multicriteria
decision analysis. In particular, through Analytic Hierarchy Process
five alternatives management have been compared and ranked
according to their performance and efficiency, taking into account
environmental, health and socioeconomic aspects. A separated
valuation has been performed for different temporal scale. For short
period results showed a narrow deviation between the disposal
alternatives “monomaterial landfill in public quarry" and “dedicate
cells in existing landfill", with the best performance of the first one.
While for long period “treatment plant to eliminate hazard from
asbestoscontaining waste" was prevalent, although high energy
demand required to achieve the change of crystalline structure. A
comparison with results from a participative approach in valuation
process might be considered as future development of method
application to ACW management.
Open Science Index 77, 2013