THE DETERIORATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SERVICE CONDITIONS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN IRAQ

by **claud39** Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:25 am

THE DETERIORATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SERVICE CONDITIONS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN IRAQ

7/21/2020

The Federal Financial Supervision Bureau report revealed the deterioration of the environmental and service reality in Iraq in the field of solid municipal waste management in a scientific and environmentally friendly manner and the absence of a mechanism to sort waste from the source for recycling and the establishment of electric power generation projects.

The report indicated that not all irregular transformational stations affiliated with the Baghdad Municipality, numbering (14), have obtained environmental approvals, as well as the need for most regular transformational stations to rehabilitate the number (9) stations, including one (Al-Rashid Station) that does not have environmental approvals. It was established in / 2011 and that most of the regular and irregular stations do not meet the environmental conditions in terms of their proximity to the residential areas and the main streets as they cause pollution to the surrounding environment and the spread of diseases, bad smells, insects and rodents as well as being an uncivilized manifestation of the capital Baghdad

The report also states that all the 14 municipal departments of the Baghdad Municipality are transporting municipal waste from the transfer stations for only one landfill in the Al Nabai area outside the borders of Baghdad Governorate and near the Tarmiyah district, which is a random location and does not have environmental approvals Failure to comply with the conditions and specifications for the construction of landfill sites after the closure of all landfill sites in Baghdad (Abu Ghraib site, the Tamari landfill site, the Arkia and Fadil landfill site, the Nahrawan landfill site), which costs the state a financial and financial effort as a result.

   The report also mentioned that there is a difference in the amount of waste coming out of the transfer stations and between the amount entering the site for the month (January and February / 2019), for example, which indicates the presence of missing quantities during transportation to some municipal departments before they reach the landfill site or a defect in the calculation of weights The lack of bridge scales.

The report also stated that there are no complete projects regarding the production of electric energy from municipal waste until the date of preparing this report, despite the formation of a special committee for that from the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in the Diwaniya Order No. (68) for the year / 2017 headed by Mr. Municipal Representative of the Municipality of Baghdad and the membership of the representative The technician in the Ministry of Health and Environment, a representative of the Ministry of Electricity, the head of the Baghdad Investment Authority and the general manager of the Solid Waste and Environment Department to study investment offers in the field of utilizing municipal waste to produce electric energy.

The report also clarified that the Municipality of Baghdad does not have any laboratory for sorting and recycling waste on both sides of Karkh and Rusafa, despite the great importance of these laboratories in reducing pollution and the spread of diseases through recycling and reducing the quantities that are buried in landfills and another financial source through the sale of sorted materials such as paper Glass and fertilizer resulting from organic waste. The Secretariat has contracted with the Turkish company Afnan for a total amount of (58) million euros to implement two waste sorting plants on both sides of Al-Karkh and Al-Rusafa with a period of completion (18) months that was initiated in the project since 2008 and the work was withdrawn from The company executing in October since 2016, the technical completion rate reached (77%), and an amount of (43) million Euros was spent, or 75% of the contract cost.

The report indicated that the Municipality of Baghdad did not provide the audit team with the amounts of the total fines imposed on the violators in the field of waste management, which led to the lack of knowledge of these amounts and the percentage of the amounts collected despite our assurances where the imposition of the fine is not considered a sufficient deterrent measure without meeting the amount of the fine, which led to an increase in the number of violations By citizens

It is mentioned that the report came out with several recommendations, including the need to expedite the completion of the project for building landfills near to the capital, as well as the implementation of a project to sort waste in Baghdad, with the need to conduct awareness and education campaigns by the Baghdad Municipality for citizens in sorting waste and not throwing it at random, and urging Starting a project to produce electric energy from municipal waste, including all governorates with services to collect waste in an environmentally friendly manner and imposing fines against violators.

To view or download the detailed report, click on the following link:  https://www.fbsa.gov.iq/ar/reports/view/1461

https://www.fbsa.gov.iq/ar/reports/view/1461

https://www.fbsa.gov.iq/ar/view/1910