Optimization of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and transportation through source separation
becomes one of the major concerns in the MSW management system design, due to the fact that the
existing MSW management systems suffer by the high collection and transportation cost. Generally, in
a city different waste sources scatter throughout the city in heterogeneous way that increase waste collection
and transportation cost in the waste management system. Therefore, a shortest waste collection
and transportation strategy can effectively reduce waste collection and transportation cost. In this paper,
we propose an optimal MSW collection and transportation scheme that focus on the problem of minimizing
the length of each waste collection and transportation route. We first formulize the MSW collection
and transportation problem into a mixed integer program. Moreover, we propose a heuristic solution for
the waste collection and transportation problem that can provide an optimal way for waste collection
and transportation. Extensive simulations and real testbed results show that the proposed solution can
significantly improve the MSW performance. Results show that the proposed scheme is able to reduce
more than 30% of the total waste collection path length