Quality Improvement of Municipal Solid Wastes Management in Alexandria Governorate

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: Excellent, University of Alexandria (Faculty of Engineering-Production Department), course: Quality Improvement Tools and Techniques being used in the Analysis of an Environmental Problem, language: English, abstract: Environmental quality is a prime concern to sustain the development of Egypt. Solid wastes generated from human settlements are of the major environmental issues that concern and challenge Egypt today. SWM is a crucial public service issue affecting both environment and health. SWM in Egypt have always been, and will continue to be one of the most pressing challenges facing the Egyptian authorities for the coming decades unless appropriate solutions are derived. The intention of this search is to implement Quality Improvement Techniques in Environmental Engineering Field to analyze the Egyptian Waste Management problem and find applicable solutions according to the current situation givens. The main focus is on municipal solid wastes excluding hazardous wastes from it. SWM problem in Egypt can be summarized as the absence of a regular waste collection service; waste is dumped in open spaces, on access roads which are invaded by animals and waste pickers so, wastes are scattered and serve as breeding grounds for disease vectors and with the leachate from decomposing garbage nearby water sources and soil which results in food contamination, all this have serious environmental consequences. Alexandria, the second capital of Egypt is taken as practical case study of this search. The field of solid waste management is as old as human beings age. Since that waste is a product that is commonly developed due to human living. This sector has been of such concern for all cultures all along the history because of its significant effects on both the human health and his surrounding environment. The effects on health appears in terms of disease spread like cholera and plague; that were really developed due to poor means of handling solid wastes at this time. While the significant effects that could affect the environment appear in terms of land degradation and soil contamination. But a huge gap has occurred in the development and improvement of this field between developed and developing countries along time. In developing countries like Egypt, the situation is deteriorated in terms of inadequate waste collection service resulting in poor waste collection coverage efficiency that led to waste ¿garbage¿ spread on the access roads of the cities. [...]