Management of Landfill Locating of Urban Waste

Abstract

Selection of waste landfill is one of the most important steps in managing urban solid waste. Regarding the landfills' damaging effects on environment, economy and ecology, landfill selection must be done carefully and in a scientific process. Many measures are involved in choosing landfills. This paper aims to describe and review performed procedures. Collection and analysis of data has been conducted through internally and externally valid books, articles and websites. This study evaluates instructions and different methods of locating landfill. And it compares the advantages and disadvantages of each of these instructions. The effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) was explained to combine layers of information for locating.