A Decision Support System for Siting a Refuse Incineration Plant

Abstract In this paper, it is dealt with a decision support methodology to evaluate the location of refuse incineration plant to dispose the municipal waste for the environmental assessment of constructing a new plant. At the first step, the items to evaluate the location of the plant were derived asking the municipal officers who are working for the waste disposal planning. These were environmental and financial impacts due to construction and operation of the plant. The second step, the several alternatives for the sites of the plant were evaluated using the Descriptive Analytic Hierarchy Process (D- AHP).