Environmental care and the package of EU directives regarding the management of waste generated in the production process force enterprises, including militarized ones, to outsource the disposal process to specialized companies holding the required certificates and permits.Waste accumulated in a production enterprise – a military unit, after initial sorting, is transported to appropriate disposal facilities that recycle or neutralize the waste. Transport services in this case are provided by a company possessing appropriate transport means, adapted for the carriage of various types of waste, including hazardous materials [3].
Due to the specific nature of the transported material (risk of environmental contamination), there is a need to integrate a specialized transport system (appropriate transport means, their capacity and quantity, structure of available routes, etc.) with an organized disposal network. In the considered case, we are dealing with typical problems of planning and scheduling waste flows.
Constraints include the quantities of accumulated waste, storage capacities of enterprises and facilities, capacities of production enterprises and disposal facilities, throughput of the transport system, quantity and capacity of transport means, available structure of transport routes, etc. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 5/2011