TITLE:
Characterization of Household Solid Waste and Management in Tripoli City—Libya
AUTHORS:
Walid A. S. Moftah, Dragan Marković, Omar A. S. Moftah, Layth Nesseef
KEYWORDS:
Household Solid Waste, Generation Rate, Composition, Solid Waste Management
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.6 No.7,
June
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: Waste stream characteristics must be understood to tackle waste
management problem in Tripoli city, Libya. It is recognized that information on
both quantity and composition of generation waste is important for the
effective planning of household waste handling infrastructure. So, this study
is aimed to evaluating the generation, composition and density of household
solid waste in Tripoli city, Libya. The study is carried out according to the
Annex 2.1 of: WHO 1996. It was conducted during one week in summer, autumn and
winter 2011/2012. The daily household solid waste generation assessment has
been carried out for 150 Libyan families where 947 people in three main parts
of Tripoli city have been chosen randomly. A questionnaire was prepared
according to Buenrostro et al. 2001
and Raje et al. 2001 using
door-to-door surveying. The result showed that the average of total generation
quantity, daily generation rate, total volume and density were 1415 kg, 0.64
kg/person/day, 19.3 m3 and 74.4 kg/m3 respectively in
Tripoli city. Household solid waste contains 36.3% organic matter and 32.5%
recyclable materials (glass, paper, plastic, metals). The total generation
quantity, daily generation rate, total volume and density were in Tripoli city
agreed with those for African and Arabic countries. But the problem is that
Tripoli suffers from insufficient municipal solid waste management and lack of
sanitary landfills.