Abstract
With the passage of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the
subsequent amendments to RCRA, efforts to provide tighter controls on the transportation and
disposal of hazardous waste have been steadily gaining ground. This paper, intended as a decision
support tool for regional planning, incorporates information on the hazardous waste generation,
treatment capacity and the costs of waste treatment alternatives into an optimization problem
of finding the relationship between governing agency and the toxic waste producing firms. As an
example, we consider the problem of regional hazardous waste in the San Francisco Bay Area in
Northern California.