Multi-criteria food waste treatment method selection using single-valued neutrosophic-CRITIC-MULTIMOORA framework

Abstract

Proper management and treatment of food waste have become a key concern due to its significant environmental, social, and economic ramifications. The selection of the most appropriate food waste treatment method among a set of alternative methods can be regarded as a multi-criteria decision-making problem because of the association of numerous qualitative and quantitative attributes. In this paper, we offer a novel integrated framework by combining criteria interaction through inter-criteria correlation (CRITIC) and multi-objective optimization based on ratio analysis with the full multiplicative form (MULTIMOORA) methods with single-valued neutrosophic sets (SVNSs) for assessing the multi-criteria food waste treatment methods selection. In this methodology, the CRITIC technique is applied for computing the attribute weights, and the MULTIMOORA model is employed for estimating the ranking of the options within SVNSs context. To examine the introduced methodology’s efficiency and achievability, a case study of food waste treatment method (FWTM) assessment is discussed in the SVNSs setting. Further, comparative study and sensitivity investigation are offered to certify the presented framework for prioritizing FWTMs. The final results indicate that the proposed approach achieves better solutions than the extant models.