Solid Waste Management and Treatment at Mosul University

Abstract

Solid waste represents a real risk for people's health. Civilizations progress scale of their good management of solid waste. This project aims to evaluate Solid waste management of Mosul university. This research does not include demolition wastes at Mosul university due to war period. The results show that generation rate of S.W at Mosul university about 100 g/cap./d. The constituents of S.W is ranked as flows: organic matter, yard trimming, plastic, papers, glass, and Aluminum.

There are many suggested solutions to reduce the amount of the generated S. W; Converting the organic wastes to compost is the first, Size reduction of papers and volume reduction for each of plastic and aluminum materials is the second, finally, the incineration of unwanted materials.

It is vital to say; the application of the research's recommendations can be leads to lessen the efforts of municipal mangers.