Environmental Sustainable Waste Management for a City Multi-Floor Manufacturing Cluster

Abstract

A multi-floor manufacturing in residential districts of huge city promotes decongestion of urban traffic and satisfy the population’s demand for essential goods. City manufacturing and its supply chain entail several challenges related to the sustainable development of a large agglomeration. Environmental problems impose significant constraints on such manufacturing activities and production waste in the urban environment poses a real problem that needs to be addressed by special research. This paper discusses integrated sustainable production waste management for a city multi-floor manufacturing cluster, consisting of a group of production buildings and a supporting logistics node. In line with the theory of integrated sustainable waste management, three key components are addressed: waste management stakeholders, components of the waste management system, and the technical, environmental and legal aspects of a city multi-floor manufacturing cluster. The goal of the paper is to develop a concept for a model of environmental sustainable waste management in a city multi-floor manufacturing cluster, aimed at ensuring the system safety: human - technical facility - environment. This model can serve as a basis for the development of appropriate logistics chains for production waste management considering their hazardousness indicator. The versatility of the model will allow it to be widely used, and when its stages and working principles are embedded in the practice of city multi-floor manufacturing, proper control over the waste management process can be achieved. The application of the proposed model of integrated sustainable production waste management in the practice of the city multi-floor manufacturing clusters will contribute to the environmental sustainability of its operation.

Sustainable Waste Management for a City Multifloor Manufacturing Cluster: A Framework for Designing a Smart Supply Chain

“…The MNPW is removed to municipal waste transfer stations (WTSs) from stationary solid waste containers every day at a scheduled time, and from stationary and mobile selective waste collection points only after they are filled. In the first case, a specialized truck is used for the MNPW removal for each selective collection, and in the second case, municipal WTS trucks are used [21,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. It should be emphasized that municipal WTSs also receive waste generated at various urban facilities outside of the city MFM clusters [21,38,[44][45][46].…”

“…In the first case, a specialized truck is used for the MNPW removal for each selective collection, and in the second case, municipal WTS trucks are used [21,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. It should be emphasized that municipal WTSs also receive waste generated at various urban facilities outside of the city MFM clusters [21,38,[44][45][46]. After processing the MNPWs in municipal WTSs, they are delivered to the WTSs of a Recycling, Treatment, and Energy Park (RTEP) for final processing according to their compositions, material hierarchy, and desired output functions [47,48].…”

“…For MPW transportation via IRTs, freight elevators, trucks, and a CLN are used. The transportation of IRTs holding MPW in light or e-trucks can be carried out together with other IRTs in the form of interconnected multi-IRT, which can be used as a city container [21,32,33]. However, it is not always possible to furnish a city container with compatible freights, deliver it to the CLN, and after performing unloading-loading operations, deliver the homogeneous city container with MPW to the WTS under supply uncertainty.…”

“…• the placement of industrial production, industrial, and technological parks outside of the residential areas of the city [16,17]; • the use of modern information and environmentally friendly production technologies and modular lightweight technological equipment, changing the quality of labor resources in the conditions of continuous self-learning [4,6,[18][19][20][21]; • the use of sustainable supply chains (SCs), closed-loop SC networks, and reverse logistics in the framework of the circular economy and sustainable freight transport systems [15,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]; • the creation of city Advanced Technology and Education Parks (ATEPs), providing not only educational services, but also innovative products and manufacturing technologies for various enterprises within the framework of regional and/or international cooperation with a wide range of stakeholders [6,28]; • the municipal policy for the sustainable development of CM4.0 and distributed zones of urban entrepreneurship, aimed at creating favorable tax conditions and infrastructure incentives to attract investment and private companies [29].…”

“…This paper focuses on the integrated sustainable waste management (ISWM) within a city MFM cluster and is based on analysis scenarios of the smart supply chain (SSC) of municipal production waste (MPW), considering the capacity of its generation. In urban conditions, such waste can be classified as municipal nonproduction waste (MNPW) and MPW, which are removed from the cluster territory in accordance with the principle of the separate formation of their SCs [21,30].…”