Table 4 Details of criteria for HWRPL assessment7,61,65.
Dimensions | Criteria | Meanings |
|---|---|---|
Economic (L1) | Transportation cost (V1) | It involves the total costs of transportation used for household waste processing plant location selection |
Recycling cost (V2) | It contains operation and installation costs of the HWRP | |
Construction cost (V3) | It involves the total amount of costs used in the assessment of HW processing plant location | |
Social (L2) | Job creation (V4) | It considers the formation of new jobs as it produces new service capacity |
Sustainability (V5) | It considers the recovery and recycling processes conducting in the HWRP | |
Environmental (L3) | Amount of household wastes (V6) | It discusses to household wastes volume to be treated at the processing plant |
Capacity of household waste processing plant (V7) | It involves the utmost quantity of household wastes that can be treated at the HWRP | |
Consumers’ environmental awareness and willingness (V8) | It considers that whether consumers are willing to release and classify their household wastes to waste collection site | |
Risk (L4) | Operational risk (V9) | It considers that shortage in the quantity of waste transported to processing plant |
Social risk (V10) | It considers the risk of explosion and fire because of the production of methane gas on processing sites |
