Identifying and prioritizing effective policies and approaches in controlling and organizing the phenomenon of garbage collection

Practical experiments indicate that garbage collection is considered to be one of the most dangerous and inhuman activities. Due to many social implications involved, few people are willing to accept the risk of entering and organizing this field of activity. This is why, several solutions have been proposed and sometimes implemented, still in different regions and cities, all kinds of methods are used by trial and error. This research tries to prioritize these policies and approaches using a descriptive and analytical method. Accordingly, first the current trends are identified and the more effective ones are ranked using expert opinions. The main data was collected from a sample of 30 people and weighed and scored based on their opinions. The required data was obtained through a questionnaire that was validated by experts from the same field and its reliability was determined based on Cronbach's alpha model (0.83). The data were analyzed using the SWARA method. The results showed that among the policies of social measures, disciplinary, situational and control-elimination programs had a higher position. The status of the proposed strategies in each of these policies also showed that the attention to the demand side is more effective in controlling and organizing garbage collection than supply-oriented approaches.