Objectives:

> Determination of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) quality & quantity for selected towns in the study areas (generation rate and composition)

> Determination of  MSW recycling priorities at different sections of the study areas including : material recycling, composting and  incineration

> Determination of optimized process for selecting recycling facilities and  economical analysis

> Proposing feasible recycling facilities and factories in some sections of  the study areas.

Main Topics:     

>   Population, operating, infra-structural and climatic specification of the study areas.

>   Municipal solid waste physical & chemical analysis in the study areas.

>   Consideration of the recycling industries  and their  main waste composition.

>   Identification of the existing condition of recycling system.

>   Identification of potential and main activities of solid waste recycling and source separation.

>   Consideration of common process of solid waste recycling facilities and  products.

>   Evaluation of recycled products market in the study areas.

>   Prioritizing and siting MSW material and energy of recycling facilities in the study areas

>   Consideration and determination of financing  procedures for recycling facilities

>   Presentation of several technical and environmental standards and  regulations for recycling  and source separation