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Management of household waste in sanitary landfill of Mostaganem district (Western Algeria)

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The management of solid waste in Mostaganem district was limited to collection and transportation to open dumpsites. By the end of 2010, the situation has changed since there exists now a sanitary landfill (SL) which allows for better management. The objective of our work is to determine the main elements related to MSW (waste generation, physical composition, physicochemical and bacteriological parameters, ways and means to collect) which enable to help local collectivities (municipality, decision-makers, political actors and private sector) to decide on how to improve and exploit the SL. In this respect, we tentatively propose methods applying the principle of reduction at the source, recycling, reusing, valorization and elimination (3R-VE). We propose also optimizing the collection as well as the utilization of sorting centers and transfer docks. The study is on the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of MSW collected since 2011 from the SL of Mostaganem city and six nearby municipalities. The quantities of waste increase annually by 18 % with a ratio of 0.4 kg/inhab/day for 2013. The organic matter represents the major fraction with more than 60 % and the recycled part is of the order of 32 %. The determination of physicochemical parameters of MSW has enabled a financial study by valorization channels.

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This work was supported by a grant from the directorate general for scientific research and technological development (DG-SRTD) from the ministry of higher education and scientific research.

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  1. Laboratoire des Sciences et Techniques de l’Environnement et de la Valorisation (STEVA), Université de Mostaganem, BP 188, 27000, Mostaganem, Algeria

    I. S. Abdelli, M. Asnoune, F. Abdelmalek & A. Addou

  2. Centre d’Enfouissement Technique (Landfill); Sour, 27210, Mostaganem, Algeria

    Z. Arab

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Abdelli, I.S., Asnoune, M., Arab, Z. et al. Management of household waste in sanitary landfill of Mostaganem district (Western Algeria). J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 19, 265–281 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-015-0415-6

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