Solid waste management in non-state armed group-controlled areas of Syria case study “Daret Azza and Atareb sub-district “

Year 2019, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 34 - 45, 31.03.2019

Abdullah Saghir

Abstract

The purpose of this study
(technical assessment) is to understand the effect of the Syrian crisis on the
solid waste management (SWM) sector in Non-State Armed Group (NSAG) controlled
areas and define the worst communities located in Daret Azza and Atareb
subdistrict (DAAS)/Aleppo governorate of Syria. The assessment showed that: SWM
sector in general is not supported from Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
in a good way so the environment is polluted and cutaneous leishmaniasis
registered cases increased and a huge number of the cases were registered
during the fourth months of 2018. The number of communities of DAAS is forty
and the population is about 275740 persons (of them 110016 internal displaced
persons (IDPs)) live in it, all these local councils do not receive or
supported by SW equipment, tools and machines, The SWM of Majbineh, Balenta,
Bshantara, Bishqatine, Mezanaz, Arnaz, Qanater, Western Kafr Jum and Arhab is
considered the worst in DAAS. The total volume of MSW production of DAAS is
386.72 m³ day^-1 and the total quantity is 77344 kg day^-1
and the average value SW production per capita for DAAS is : 0.28 kg day^-1,
All the landfills of DAAS are not sanitary and could be considered a randomly
dumps. The maximum Cutaneous leishmaniasis cases are at Western Kafr Jum: 738
cases in the fourth months of the 2018 year, which is considered so risky, the
root cause of this case related to the bad SWM.

Keywords

Solid waste, Syrian crisis, Atareb

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