Table 3.

The used criteria and sub-criteria and their weights.

Main criteria	Weight of criteria	Sub-criteria	Weight of sub-criteria	Final weight	Cost or benefit
Economic ($c_1$)	0.4822	Operating costs (C11)	0.2910	0.1404	−
		HW transportation cost to disposal facilities (C12)	0.2366	0.1141	−
		The cost of repairs and maintenance (C13)	0.1311	0.0632	−
		Investment cost (C14)	0.1178	0.0568	−
		Land price (C15)	0.0624	0.0301	−
		Burial fee (C16)	0.0724	0.0349	−
		Possibility of future expansion (C17)	0.0658	0.0317	+
		Project construction cost (C18)	0.0230	0.0111	−
Environmental ($c_2$)	0.2449	Contamination (C21)	0.2709	0.0663	−
		Distance from surface water (C22)	0.2135	0.0523	+
		Noise pollution (C23)	0.1632	0.0400	−
		The effect of greenhouse gas emissions (C24)	0.1360	0.0333	−
		Depth of groundwater (C25)	0.0802	0.0196	+
		Distance from residential areas (C26)	0.0617	0.0151	+
		Odor emission rate (C27)	0.0473	0.0116	−
		Distance from power lines (C28)	0.0273	0.0067	+
Social ($c_3$)	0.1583	Social acceptance (C31)	0.2297	0.0364	+
		Population density (C32)	0.2339	0.0370	−
		Archeological importance (C33)	0.2048	0.0324	−
		Distance from communities (C34)	0.0920	0.0146	+
		Health and safety (C35)	0.0940	0.0149	+
		Adherence to rules and regulations (C36)	0.0692	0.0110	+
		Land use (C37)	0.0328	0.0052	−
		Lack of municipal problems (C38)	0.0437	0.0069	+
Technical ($c_4$)	0.0762	Landfill capacity (C41)	0.3135	0.0239	+
		Availability of workforce (C42)	0.2021	0.0154	+
		Accessibility to the road (C43)	0.1292	0.0098	+
		Infrastructure development (C44)	0.1004	0.0077	+
		Distance to the garbage collection point (C45)	0.0898	0.0068	−
		Distance to a complex of waste sorting (C46)	0.0617	0.0047	−
		Distance from mines (C47)	0.0694	0.0053	+
		Lack of leachate control (C48)	0.0340	0.0026	−
Geological ($c_5$)	0.0383	Soil type (C51)	0.2607	0.0100	−
		Height (C52)	0.1810	0.0069	−
		Distance from the fault (C53)	0.1623	0.0062	+
		Slope (C54)	0.1829	0.0070	−
		Wind problems (C55)	0.0790	0.0030	−
		Flooding (C56)	0.0644	0.0025	−
		Precipitation estimates (C57)	0.0427	0.0016	−
		Vegetation (C58)	0.0269	0.0010	−