Abstract: Principles of sustainable development are
currently an integral part of any advanced way of thinking
either in the development of society in general, the
development of an economy or an engineering practice. The
problem lies in the complexity of such a mindset. In order
for a system to be sustainable it must be at least
economically justified, not to have a negative impact on the
environment and to be acceptable to the society. In addition,
very often, it is necessary to consider the political
consequences of certain phenomena, technological solutions,
and other aspects. The development of software solutions
that offer the possibility of including a lot of parameters
(indicators) and their analysis are of crucial importance.
This paper presents the principle of a software package
application that provides the possibility of comparing the
sustainability of certain methods of waste management on
the territory of the local community. For this purpose three
scenarios were taken into consideration: basic as usual,
aerobic process and anaerobic process, together with the
relevant pretreatment. For the assessment of their
sustainability, economic, environmental and social
indicators were taken into account. The procedure of multicriteria
analysis using the AHP method and pair-wise
criteria, performed with the Expert Choice 11 software, was
used. The results obtained by using the AHP method and a
sensitivity analysis showed that, according to the selected
indicators, it is possible to rank the scenarios and choose the
best sustainable waste management scenario (the scenario
which involves resource recovery through recycling
inorganic waste and composting organic waste ).