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Collection, transport, transfer, recycling and proper disposal of solid waste is an essential issue for the local authorities of large metropolitan areas. Turkey, especially in the metropolitan cities like Konya, has been combatting with the same problem, changing the institutional structure of the national policy and the necessary legislation about the solid waste management and the implementation of the recyling-recovery programs to reduce the amount of the solid waste to be disposed of at the sanitary landfills...

In recent years, all over the world and in Turkey, as a result of increasing population, industrial and urban development and rising life standarts, the fosil fuels have dramatically been used up and caused environmental pollution. Since it has been recognized that energy sources such as petroleum and coal are non-renewable energy sources and they are limited, researches have been concentrated on the biomass energy which is renewable and optained easily in all world. In this study, from the available statistical d...