Selection of the Best Solid waste Management Yaounde using an Analytical Hierarchy Process

Abstract

Joel Sotamenou

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is one of the global challenges facing the world today in order to achieve development goals. This paper aims to structure MSW management problems into hierarchy to assist in decision making process in order to select the most appropriate MSW management strategy in Yaounde. The tool used is the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), one of the multi criteria decision making techniques. From the synthesis of the decision/policy makers’ judgements, the criteria “sustainable development” and “waste service quality” are the priority objectives that must be applied to MSW management system in Yaounde; and the alternatives “pre-collection” and “selective collection” are the suitable actions to integrate into the current MSW management system in Yaounde.

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