Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

With the development of advanced technology in the recent years there is an enlargement in the generation of waste. There are different sources of waste generation such as industries, hospitals, etc. This paper provides a review on different type of waste management problems such as biomedical waste management, Solid waste management, Hazardous waste management etc. There is a need to manage this waste properly within short time period because it affects the people lives and environment. Therefore, the waste management problems have become more and more complex in today's life. To dispose the waste within short time there is need to optimize some factors like distance, time and number of vehicles used for the collection and transportation of waste. This paper focuses on the different optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Modified multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization (MOACO), etc. to solve the waste management problems using Vehicle Routing problem (VRP).