Application of ELECTRE III for the integrated management of municipal solid wastes in the Greater Athens area

The present work presents an application of multicriterial aid for decisions in the area of municipal solid waste management in Greece, in the context of a case study for household wastes in the Greater Athens Area. For the case study area, a concise family of 24 evaluation criteria is proposed. Through these, five selectively composed alternatives for the integrated management of household waste are compared and ranked by the ELECTRE III multicriterial method. Results indicate separate collection at the source to be particularly important, whereas the need for careful sensitivity analysis of inter- and intra-criterion information is demonstrated.