In this paper, we have faced waste collection and transportation
problem arising when planning an effective waste management
system. In particular, we have studied the problem of waste collection
in a city where sources are scattered by heterogeneous way. In
this paper, we have also studied waste transportation problem for
time and cost effective waste management system design. For this
problem, in this paper, we have divided the entire waste management
system into three stages. Each stage has been optimized with
the aid of TSP. We have proposed heuristic solution for optimal
waste collection and transportation problem. The proposed
scheme computes optimal waste collection and transportation
path at each stage. Computational results and real life experiment
have been shown the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Results
show that the proposed scheme is able to reduce more than 30% of
the total waste collection path length. This reduction of path length
in waste collection and transportation determine consistent monetary
saving in the waste management operations