Municipal solid waste (MSW) generated by the dwellers of the City of Bandung which amounted to 7500 m3 per day is big deal of a problem for the Government of the City since MSW treatment and management is carried out by the Government business branch (PD Kebersihan). The Government has decided to implement waste to energy (WTE) incineration for MSW treatment three years ago. The realization, however, was nowhere to be seen. One of the reasons that the realization is halted is due to the objection by residents in the neighbourhood of the planned WTE plant site. This paper aims to systematically and objectively assist and support the decision makers in the Government in selecting the most appropriate MSW treatment technology and management for the City via implementation of sound multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) tools available. Herein, the MSW treatment technology and management regarded as alternatives are open dumping landfill, sanitary landfill, power generation from biogas via anaerobic digestion, power generation via gasification, composting, and waste to energy (WTE) incineration. Moreover, aspects of technology, social, economy, and environment are considered as criteria for selecting the most suitable MSW treatment technology and management. Several well established MCDA tools such as AHP, ELECTRE II, PROMETHEEII, and TOPSIS are applied. Each of the MCDA tool has its own merits and drawbacks which will be investigated in this paper. In addition, sensitivity analyses were carried out in order to investigate the robustness of the methods. Among all MCDA tools mentioned, TOPSIS is the simplest to be used for it does not need much intervention from the decision maker, and yet yields comparable results with others.
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