Strategic Problems of Big Cities for Solid Waste Treatment

The rapid increase of industrial and household waste poses a threat to human health and the environment. The major problems with waste occur in big cities, where a large number of people live on relatively small territories and a huge amount of unprocessed MSW is formed. The purpose of this thesis is description of strategic problems related to solid waste disposal and develop a mathematical model for quantitative analysis of the financial costs . The scientific novelty of the thesis consists in: a). offering a new, previously unpublished, mathematical model for estimating the costs associated with the development of MSW treatment systems in big cities; b). the definition of the problem of finding the optimal structure of the city's MSW processing system in the form of a minimax problem on convex polyhedral sets with a target function as the sum of two bilinear and linear functions of vector variables, the solution of which allows, in particular, to find the optimal strategy of the city administration in the worst-case scenario of the development of the environmental situation in it. The practical significance of the thesis consists in the applicability of the obtained results in the course of solution of specific environmental problems by the administrations of big cities. Master's thesis on 99 pages consists of: Introduction, 4 chapters, Conclusion, list of sources and literature, as well as attached reviews from the Institute of Ecology and the Environmental chamber of Russia.