Perception of Waste and Waste Transfer Cost

Abstract

Since its existence, humans have been interacting with their environment to encounter its basic needs. It is obvious that these interactions cause both humans to affect the environment and the environment to affect mankind. And, environment issues are constantly, too, ubiquitous problems. Hence, waste management and waste perception are problems that municipalities should have worked on for a long time. But study has not been carried out on the waste perception and waste transfer problem relations which would base on the term of cost of this issue and previous studies of relation waste perception and waste transfer cost have not directly dealt with this issue. Hence, it could conceivably be hypothesized that major component of waste collection operational cost can basically be seen fuel cost and personnel cost but one of the main obstacles is waste perception. The argument of this paper relies too heavily on the term of waste perception. The amount of waste collected and total cost of waste are based on the characteristics of the waste, types of transfer vehicles and the distance between the cities and the transfer stations are other parameters affecting the cost yet waste perception has a most pivotal role in process. Therefore, waste perception could be a major factor, if not the only one. In this study, in order to determine the effect of solid waste perception on total collection and transportation cost, a realistic survey was conducted and the analysis was carried out.