Economic Evaluation and Planning of Waste Collection and Transportation System in Ardabil and Dehdasht Cities

Today, Municipal Waste Management is very important topic, which neglecting it caused multiple issues such as environmental pollution and spread of disease. A majority of financial investment in solid waste management is due to collection and transportation of waste. For to municipal macro policies and for economic planning of municipal solid Waste Management, WAGS software used to count capital required to supply, repair and maintenance of machinery, providing personnel and fuel costs over the next 15 years for Ardebil, as a metropolitan, and Dehdasht, as a small city. It was found that most of the cost for waste collection in both cities belongs to personnel cost. In Ardebil for the project period, the total cost of collection and transportation of waste was $120,315,000. Price per capita per year was equal to $88.12. Expenditure per family per year was equal to $14.46. Management Fee equals to $96.42 per ton. In Dehdasht, total cost of collection and transportation of waste was to $11,687,000. Price per capita per year was $61.10. Price per family per year was equal to $91.47 and $75.36 per ton.