Management games are an application of the technique of simulation that affords the player experience in decision-making situations and substitutes gaming in a simulated environment for involvement in a real one. DISCUS is a management game that illustrates the application of gaming techniques to solid-waste management. The object of the game is for the player to establish transfer stations, incinerators, and sanitary landfills throughout a hypothetical region, and to make other assignments such that the collection, haul, and processing costs of the waste to be collected and disposed of are minimized.