Implementation of (Zero-Waste) Concept in Solid Waste Management in Al-HILLA City

Abstract

Solid waste has become one of the worldwide environmental issues because of the expanding in the population, fast urbanization, affluent economy and the rise in community living standards that significantly accelerated the solid waste generation in the world which drive the experts in solid waste management systems to apply a (Zero waste) concept that they found it important to reduce the amount of solid waste in different ways. Zero waste is a concept for challenging solid waste issues in our society through stimulating economic creation, utilization, ideal optimum recycling, and resource recovery. In this study, the management of solid waste was discussed and focusing on zero waste practices to decrease the amount of solid waste gathered in the landfills and diminished the contamination happened from solid waste, zero waste strategy was discussed to implement in Al-Hilla city as a sample to apply this idea with the challenges to change to transform traditional waste management toward zero waste. "Zero Waste" is a good solution to minimizing the solid waste amount. However, lack of awareness in the community toward solid waste management but can be applied even in the simplest way.

Keywords: Zero Waste, Solid waste management,zero waste strategy, Recycle,5R Concept.