Investigating the Role of Social, Cultural and Physical Factors in the Establishment of Urban Waste Collection Stations (Case Study: Mashhad City)

The present study investigated the role of different factors in the organization of urban dry waste collection stations in Mashhad City using GIS software. Data were collected through library-based research and interviewing the experts. Then permanent dry waste exchange stations were determined separately in each district on the map of Mashhad City. Moreover, each station's level of income and the rate of people's referral were considered as the indices of success in achieving people's contribution. Accordingly, several information levels were created based on the indices such as education level, population, districts level of development, the proportion of dry waste to total waste, access networks, activities of the traditional sector, the distance between the existing stations from each other, and people's willingness toward contribution In this plan. The effectiveness of such components on the attribution and income of waste stations was also accounted in order to locate new stations. The findings of the present study showed that regions 1, 8, 9, and 11 were the appropriate places for the establishment of the new collecting stations. It was found that the opinions of experts, education level, environmental education and the level of development assigned the highest effectiveness to themselves.