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

Abstract

The purpose of this study (technical assessment) is to understand the effect of the Syrian crisis on the solid wastemanagement (SWM) sector in Non-State Armed Group (NSAG) controlled areas and define the worst communitieslocated in Daret Azza and Atareb subdistrict (DAAS)/Aleppo governorate of Syria. The assessment showed that: SWMsector in general is not supported from Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a good way so the environment ispolluted and cutaneous leishmaniasis registered cases increased and a huge number of the cases were registeredduring the fourth months of 2018. The number of communities of DAAS is forty and the population is about 275740persons (of them 110016 internal displaced persons (IDPs)) live in it, all these local councils do not receive orsupported 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 ofDAAS is 386.72 $m^3$ $day^{-1}$ and the total quantity is 77344 kg $day^{-1}$ and the average value SW production per capita forDAAS is : 0.28 kg $day^{-1}$, All the landfills of DAAS are not sanitary and could be considered a randomly dumps. Themaximum 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.