Comparative analysis of municipal solid waste systems: Cracow case study

Abstract

The evaluation method to compare municipal solid waste management (MSWM) systems has been presented. The results of the integrated waste management model (IWM-1), were used as the input data for the analysis. The results were integrated into life cycle analysis LCA impact categories. The authors present possible to calculate categories, and calculate them for the two MSWM scenarios. Next, the system performance was compared using a multicriteria method, called analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The hierarchical preference analysis on the World Wide Web software Web HIPRE) was applied to conduct the analysis. The criteria ratios for the AHP were assumed arbitrarily based on the best knowledge of the authors. Finally, the presented sensitivity analysis showed the confidence of the obtained results and pointed out the most important assumptions of the whole analysis. The two Cracow MSWM systems were used as a case study.