Abstract
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is increasing day by day more than the amount of municipal wastes in the
developing world. According to researches of Ministry of Environment and Urbanism in Turkey, to meet growing waste demand
in all regions, 850 collection points for the district municipalities and 15 large collection centres are needed. From this point of
view, in this study, the site selection of the plants used for planning and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment wastes
was realized using the methods of Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). In this study, to determine the appropriate ranking
of alternatives, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Analytic Network Process (ANP), ELECTRE and PROMETHEE that are
different MCDM methods were used. In this context, this study is the first and only such research conducted in all of Turkey. For
site selection in Turkey for waste recycling plants of WEEE, 7 criteria were used and 16 city alternatives were considered. The
ranking of first 5 cities, which are observed with AHP, ANP, ELECTRE and PROMETHEE methods are given. In this point of
view, the best alternatives are determined as İstanbul, Ankara and İzmir cities. In these results, “Population” and “EEE plant
number” criteria have been effective since these have the largest weight.