Locating landfills—Optimization vs. reality

Lee Jungwoo

This paper is a review of an article by H. A. Eiselt, contained in the European Journal of Operational Research of the 15th of November 2005. Eiselt’s paper deals with an application of location models to the sighting of landfills. It focuses on the difference between locations of existing landfills and garbage transfer stations and optimized ones in New Brunswick, one of Canada’s Maritime Provinces. The primary questions addressed by the paper are: how far the pattern of the actual observed solutions deviates from the optimized solution and, should examined proximity of optimized solution and observed solution using LP(Linear Programming) formulation.