Abstract:
Waste management has become a crucial topic in modern civilization due to its negative
environmental implications. This research focuses on the development of a green supply chain
network for waste management, with an emphasis on incorporating environmental
sustainability into decision-making. Waste management is necessary for environmental
sustainability and it has impact on health of citizens and GDP of a country. The goal is to
reduce the environmental impact of waste disposal while increasing resource recovery and
recycling. The proposed green supply chain network design has three objectives of minimizing
cost of transportation, minimizing GHG emissions due to transportation and maximizing
saving of emissions due to waste management activities. The proposed model is multi-objective
that take multi period into consideration. Interactive multi-objective fuzzy programming is
used to optimize the model and study the results. The methodology is compared with goal
programming to study its results and comparing the results of both methodologies. Various
scenarios are discussed to study the effect of waste segregation as well. Higher the segregation
of waste, emissions saved also increases. This study also mentions the importance of
segregation of waste at consumer level. For future practice study on wet waste and food waste
is also suggested with the dry waste.
