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Municipal Solid Waste Management at Amman City

Presented byEng. Hala Nobani

From Under Secretary for Health and Environment Office

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Greater Amman Municipality

Our Vision

Cleaner city and better environment

which reflects the modern face of

Amman

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The Capital Amman

• Area: 1700 km2, 27 Districts

• Population: About 2 million and

expected to reach 6.5 million in 2025

• Different mixture of income groups

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Responsibility by Law• Greater Amman municipality is

responsible by law for solid waste

management within Amman boundaries

According to the Article 41 of the Law N° (29) for 1955 ( Municipal Law)

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Organization of Municipal Solid Waste Management System in GAM

Mayor

Undersecretary for districts and environment

Undersecretary Assistant forDistricts and environment

Undersecretary Assistant forHealth and environment

27 Districts Inspection team

Municipality Council

Landfill

Transfer stations

Inspection

Studies and research

Cleanliness and environment Department

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Pre-Collection/Sweeping & Cleaning

• GAM cleanliness workers are responsible for sweeping and

cleaning the streets of Amman city

• About 4000 cleanliness workers are supervised by 200

supervisors

• Cleanliness workers and supervisors are controlled by the

environment protection section in each district, where each

section is under the leadership of at least one engineer

• Cleanliness workers work three shifts each day

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Solid Waste Collection

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Solid Waste Collection• Waste is collected from 1100 litre containers by Rotaries and Compacters

with various capacities and from 5000 litre containers by Hoists.

• Collection schedule is planned and arranged by the environment

protection section in each district according to studies and assessment

in order to find best path and collect all full containers

• Waste is collected from narrow alleys and areas by 2 ton capacity

compactors

• Loaders and trucks are used to clean empty spaces

• The total number of drivers who work in waste management

is around 234 drivers

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Solid Waste Collection Vehicle Type Number Function Rotaries and Compactors

263 Waste Collection

Trailla 18 Waste Collection Hoist 18 Waste Collection

Heavy Duty 10 Waste disposal Mechanical

Sweeper 4 Sweeping

Washing Machine 2 Containers Washing Pickup 27 Inspection Truck 26 Bulky Waste

Collection Water Tank 21 Cleanliness Process

Loader 24 Cleanliness Process for Special Missions

Container About 16000 Waste Collection

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Transfer Stations

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Transfer Stations• The main benefit of these transfere stations is to

reduce the transportation cost

• Solid waste is compacted and transferred from the

transfer stations to the landfill in a 12, 24, 36 m3

traillas

• New locations for other transfer stations will be

suggested in the feasibility study that is currently

being done by the Cabinet Merlin consultants

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Ghabawi Landfill

17 km

23 km

طريقالزرقاء

وسطالبلد

الطريق الدائري

km 17

طريقاألزرق

حدودأمانةعمان

الغباويمكب km 9

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GCL

HDPE

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Ghabawi Landfill• Waste Quantities arriving at the landfill are about

2300kg/ day

1. Solid Waste from Amman: about 1900kg/day

1. Solid Waste directly from districts: about 400 kg/day

2. Solid Waste directly from transfer stations: about

1503 kg/day

2. Solid Waste from other municipalities and

private sector: about 439 kg/day

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Waste Composition

Study

Composition

Royal Scientific Society

(1994) %

Fichtnery Consultants

(1996) %

Cabinet Merlin Consultants

(2002) %

Amman Municipality

(2004) %

Organics 53 44 51.4 44 Papers 17 7.74 12.6 9.1

Cardboard Included with papers

2.9 Included with papers

10.6

Metals 8 2.42 3.1 2.3 Plastic 12 13.2 14.2 15.8 Glass 10 1.42 1.8 2.2

Textiles ----------------- 4.72 4.2 9.7 Leather,

Rubber,…… -----------------

- -------------------- 3 3.9

Hazardous waste

----------------- -------------------- 0.1 0.4

1 kg/capita/day

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Recycling : Pilot Projects by NGOs

• Since 1995 GAM is supporting Jordan Environment Society (JES) in implementing the pilot recycling project, by sending specialized employees to help in the survey and the awareness campaign and also in deputizing workers and vehicles to help in collecting and separating the recyclables

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Supporting private sector

In 2005 The Mayor had signed an agreement with Al Tadweer Company. Under this agreement GAM allocated 35 dunoms near Al Ghabawi landfill to build a dirty MRF (Material Recovery Facility) with a capacity of 600 ton daily. In 2008 the MRF is expected to start working

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Recycling Projects• Ministry of Environment and GAM are now in the

planning phase for a joint venture recycling project.• The main objective for this project is to introduce to

the Jordanian people the separation at source practice.

• The project will work on the following pivots:– Awareness campaign which is going to be held by the

Jordan Environment Society. (one of the most active NGOs in manipulating recycling projects since 1995)

– Preparing the infrastructure for the project. This will be funded by the government

– Managing the project after implementation is going to be GAM's responsibility but under the super vision of the MoEnv.

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Executive Privatization Commission

• GAM has requested a feasibility study of potential for PPP (public private partnership) in recycling from the EPC.

• With the help of the EU a recycling project that serves around 250,000 to 30,000 citizens is expected to start on 2008

• This project will recover the recyclable that are going to be separated at source by the citizens themselves.

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Jordan Biogas Company• This company is situated close to Ruseifa closed landfill

• Biogas plant was constructed by GAM funded by UNDP

and in cooperation with the Electricity Company

• In the first phase of the project (2000–2006) the facility

started to produce 1Mwt/h electricity

• Recently, the facility expanded to produce 3.5 Mwt/h

electricity. And its capacity is around 60 ton daily of

organic waste , poultry waste, and diary factory wastes.

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Landfill Gas• GAM received many offers from national and international

companies for utilisation of Ghabawi landfill gas.

• An agreement was signed with the World Bank for an 18 million

dollar loan for lining, leachate drainage network, needed

equipment to extract methane gas from three cells of the landfill

to produce electricity. In addition to capacity development in

solid waste management.

• A feasibility study by Cabinet Merlin and an EIA study by Eco

Consult are being carried out for the World Bank project

• Work is expected to start in beginning of 2008 to extract gas from

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THANK YOU