A calculation method for determination of household solid waste tariffs for municipal administrations

The environmental issues raised as a result of the industrial revolution haven't been seen a problem to be solved for a long time because of their limited initial effects and also because of the fact that economic development is seen as a priority objective. On the other hand, rapid population growth and the raise of living standards caused the consumption habits to change; then, as a result, it has led increase in the amount of waste that previously hasn't been experienced. In our country, doing or having all activities done within the scope of the waste management, -waste collection, transportation, separation, recycling, disposal and landfilling- are given as a task to the local authorities. Therefore, it is very important to determine the costs of waste management activities which have a significant place in municipality budgets. Local authorities, who bear all the costs and responsibilities from collection to landfill, are having troubles to produce solutions about services in the scope of waste management due to amount of waste increasing day by day. In this study; it is aimed to create a basis to be used to determine the tariffs which will be used to generate the economic source needed to implement the activities in the scope of solid waste management services done by related Soild Waste Management Administrators (including Metropolitan Municipalities, Municipalities and Municipality Unions). In the first chapter; it is tried to express the position of waste management across environmental problems and the importance of the subject according to the local authorities, who are obliged to carry out waste management activities. The scope of the study is also given in this chapter. In the second part; the definition of solid waste and municipal solid waste concepts in the different sources, the sources and types of solid waste are given. It is also summarized the concept of integrated solid waste management system and the activities included within this system. The current status of solid waste management system in our country is tried to be summarized in the third chapter. For this purpose; it is given comprehensive information about the national and international legislations; and also given a summarized knowledge about organizations that are responsible for the execution of the work and processes of waste management. In this section, the numerical data about current situation within our country and also the principles referring to the studies representing strategies that have been put forward until now are summarized. The fourth chapter is about the local authorities. In this chapter; a change from past to now in local government structure and the current situation of local authorities in our country is given. It is also tried to assess the situation of current administrative and financial structure in the aspects of waste management. The fifth chapter is intended to demonstrate the financial size of the waste management system. For this purpose, first overall the information is given about the economic tools used in the world and in our country for the prevention and elimination of environmental problems. Subsequently, the cost incurred in the implementation of the waste management process in our country in the world and is provided for each stage. It can be as far as to obtain literature and are given to the actual application value. The sixth chapter is the section that includes the calculation module which is suggested within this study and the costs that are calculated by the module. In the seventh chapter the calculated results are evaluated and some suggestions in order to eliminate malfunctions about activities taking place in the waste management system were introduced.