Integrated solid waste management plan for Herat City, Afghanistan | |
| Author | Shaida, Mohammad Noor |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.EV-11-20 |
| Subject(s) | Refuse and refuse disposal--Afghanistan--Herat Integrated solid waste management--Afghanistan--Herat |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering and Management |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | In current scenario municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is becoming a challenge in Asian developing countries. Population growth, rapid urbanization and change in lifestyle are contributing to increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) generation. Afghanistan is one of the south Asian developing countries, whose economic growth has increased in recent past, so is the urbanization and population, hence increasing the problems of MSWM. Hence, these changes have significantly increased the quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW). However, Herat municipality and private sectors can collect only 68% of waste generated by 12 city districts. Heart Municipality faces many barriers such as lack of management, inefficient trash collection, inadequate financing, and human resource capacity and poor service delivery. Inefficient and inadequate municipal waste management in Heart city causes air, surface water and ground water pollution. This is a threat to public health, environment and aesthetics. Besides MSW, healthcare waste management and industrial waste management is also a daunting challenge in Heart city. Though public and privates hospitals collect and transfer solid waste by their own trucks and the industrial estates as well, but the critical point is that all types of waste are dumped in one landfill that is located 35 km away from the city center, in a canyon near to villages. This landfill is not designed as a sanitary landfill, but is operated as a dump site, with daily coverage of dumped wastes with soil. This research thus assessed current situation of solid waste management system, and investigated the waste generation per capita per day, municipal and healthcare waste composition and characteristics through field surveys in Herat city. Therefore, by considering of weaknesses and threats of the existed waste management system, this study is developed an integrated solid waste management plan for Herat city, and this plan will provide a sustainable waste management, safe and healthy environment in this Herat city. |
| Year | 2011 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Environmental Engineering and Management (EV) |
| Chairperson(s) | Visvanathan, C.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Shipin, Oleg V.;Thammarat Koottatep; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Herat University; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2011 |