Hi Hitesh;

Although I am not expert in waste managemente, one approach it would be to design rubbish dumps settlements basing on both socio-economic and sanitary criteria. That is, creation of areas suitable to settle rubbish dump and human waste by using different GIS layers (free available in your country or provided by pertinent government entities).

Also, it could be interesting to include new layers as variables which could constrain management in your study area (roads, railways...).

I hope i help you with this issue

Bests

Jon

It can help using the network capabilities of GIS to work on the optimum collection path for individual solid wastes thus managing the collection vehicle fleet and their paths through the collection route towards the unloading place.

GIS can be used for SWM in several ways.

1. Suitable site selection for establishing SWM centers by considering all environmental, social and economic criteria. This will be helped to mitigate the impacts of SWM centers. This can be done by multi criteria analysis using Weighted overlay technique.

2. GIS can be used to establish a better network plan for SWM of a country. Better SWM network system can be developed by identification of the location of SWM centers, their types, their covering areas and their capacities to easy access, to fulfill the waste requirements of centers as well as distribute the over collection through other centers, etc. Network analysis can be used for this.

In addition to the above contributions, I have also used GIS to map households and businesses and their waste management practices (through GPS-based interviews), thereby identifying gaps in, for example, waste collection, etc. and showing the spatial distribution of waste generation.

Hi Hitesh

Consider the following:

1. If you are familiar with ILWIS, there is module called Spatial Multi-criteria Evaluation that can allow you to use several layers geodata to specify important criteria for site suitability analysis for location ideal sites for construction of important solid waste management facilities such as landfills, transfer stations and waste recycling centres.

2. GIS can be useful in optimising routing for efficient solid waste removal through network analysis functions such as optimum path finding.

3. You can use GIS to map and characterise illegal dumpsites in a specific locality. You will need to capture GPS coordinates of the dumpsites in the field first. With further spatial analysis, you can then identify dumping hotspots.

4 You use spatial statistics to show waste generation dynamics in relation to other population parameters for various localities in a city.

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Auther

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Hi,

GIS is definitely a tool you can use in a variety of ways from logistics to landfill management. The main things I can think of right off the bat:

- Fuel consumption of trucks and route management using Network Analysts in either ArcGIS, QGIS or GRASS

- Landfill site characterization using

• 3D Analyst, TINS or Lidar in either ArcGIS, QGIS or GRASS
• Current know solid waste sites from HSIP https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=solid%20waste%20landfill%20facilities
• Geological characterization of area using ArcMAP and USGS and State data sets (go to data.gov)
• Mobile applications for customer route and pickup information using Geocoding and Web Maps
• Special pickup web or mobile applications where customers can enter their address information and drivers are then aware of pickup site via web maps

There are so many ways to leverage GIS for solid waste (or for any public works for that matter)

Cheers,

Anne

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