Abstract
AbstractAssessing the accurate performance of incinerators is imperative for policymakers to chalk out appropriate solid waste management plans. Being a treatment facility, with high capacity to destroy hazardous waste, incinerators also have the disadvantage of producing toxic ash and polluted air during the incineration process. It is, therefore, required to develop a model, which considers not only desirable inputs and outputs (I/O) but also the undesirable I/O to assess the relative performance of incinerators. This study illustrates the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the performance of 14 common biomedical waste (BMW) treatment plants, i.e., incinerators (government- and private-owned facilities) in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, using the 2013 data obtained from the state’s pollution control agency. These 14 plants receive waste from 5,301 healthcare facilities (HCFs) and hospitals, with a total of 84,751 beds. A Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) DEA model with two inputs and fo...
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