Landfill construction in Russian federation: a study for location and financial design

Abstract

The represented paper describes an original scenario for the landfill construction including the process of decision making upon its location and economic aspects. The landfill should become a solution for the number of environmental problems as it will result: • land remediation; • the cut up in amount of illegal dump areas in the region; • in the future-creation of a waste sorting plant on the recultivated land; • other improvements. In the paper the process of decision making upon the location includes three stages and is based on expert analysis of the alternatives using six main criteria. The stages are the following: collection and organizing of the data; development of recommendations; the decision upon the location itself and its fulfillment. The mathematic model is worked out for all the stages which makes it to a certain extend an universal solution. The study of the economic aspects of the landfill construction is also provided in the paper. It includes analysis of the investment's effectiveness based on certain indexes such as: • financial effectiveness; • state budget effectiveness; • social effectiveness; • environmental effectiveness;  • other. In this part again the original formulas are used for calculation and providing the data for decision making upon the investment needed.