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Decision-making analysis on collection and transportation distance of rural domestic waste: case study of Guangxi Province, China

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There were two collection, transportation and treatment models for rural domestic waste management: urban–rural disposal model and area-based disposal model. In the urban–rural disposal model, rural domestic waste is collected in villages, transferred in towns, and disposed in centralized disposal sites of county, whereas area-based disposal model meant that each village built its own small-scale domestic waste facility. The threshold of transportation distance between urban centralized disposal sites and villages determined which of these two models would be more cost-effective. In this study, a distance decision-making model to obtain the threshold of collection and transportation distance was proposed. Besides, by application of this distance decision-making model supported by GIS software, 14588 villages of Guangxi Province, China were recommended to apply urban–rural disposal model or area-based disposal model. Results showed that (1) distance threshold decreases as the population of village increases; (2) when the population size of the village was up to 20000 people, it was more cost-effective choosing area-based disposal model; (3) a total of 10932 villages in Guangxi Province were recommended to select urban–rural disposal model, 71% of which should expand treatment scales of urban centralized disposal sites. In addition, 3554 villages were recommended to select area-based disposal model; (4) the parameters of amount of per capita domestic waste output, the average life of the facilities, cost of building new small-scale area-based treatment facilities, and cost of collection and transportation of waste have high sensitivity for distance threshold estimation.

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This study is supported by Guangxi Science and Technology Research Program (AB16380253), National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1903201), and Scientific Research Foundation of Guangxi University (XGZ150300).

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  1. College of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Road, Nanning, 530004, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Ruhui Huang, Xiang Sun, Xingyu Tan, Suqin Zhao, Dachao Ma, Qun Wei, Yang Yang & Lei Zhang

  2. Scientific Research Academy of Guangxi Environmental Protection, Nanning, 530022, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Biao Han

  3. Environmental Protection Publicity and Education Center of Guangxi Autonomous Region, Nanning, 530000, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Ting Sun

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Huang, R., Sun, X., Tan, X. et al. Decision-making analysis on collection and transportation distance of rural domestic waste: case study of Guangxi Province, China. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 22, 2081–2091 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-020-01093-4

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