Environmental Assessment of Household Hazardous Waste Managementin Hebron City

الموضوعات

علوم بيئية

الملخص

This thesis handles the Environmental assessment of Household HazardousWaste Management (HHW) in Hebron city by finding out HHW types andproportions, and also by dedicating the level of awareness of household headsin regard to knowledge of risks and dangers associated with HHW items,knowledge how to handle, collect and dispose these substances, in addition toinvestigation of the accidents and injuries that are occurring because of thesesubstances.A questionnaire was distributed among households and there were 385respondents, data was analyzed to figure out different indicators. Also,analysis of the generated SW was carried out during a fourteen working daysperiod to detect different HHW components and their proportions. Throughthis analysis 115 samples weighing 14.56 tons of domestic solid waste atHebron solid waste transfer station were analyzed.Results show the great risk associated with HHW especially that kids aretransferring SW from home to container (40.2%) with the potential risk ofaccident, containers in some cases are more than 150 m away from home(19%) increasing the potential risk. The risk is increased by knowing that27.2% of kids are playing near the SW containers. These potential risks arereal, as in 18.5% of houses there was an accident related to HHW risks.Accidents were either injuries (42%), or poisoning (36%) or burns (22%).Socioeconomic factors were related to attitudes and practices of citizens inregard to HHW. Married citizens were more willing (73%) to separate HHWfrom other waste compared to single (60%). Larger families (more than 7members) have the highest probability of HHW accident (34%), compared tosmall families (less than 5 members) where the percentage is only 10%. It was12interesting to find that kids from the medium income level (Income is 400-600JD) have the highest percentage of playing near the containers 36%, comparedwith very low income level (less than 200JD) where the percentage is only16%. Containers which size are insufficient and overflow were attracting kidsto play around (32%) more than containers of sufficient size (20%).Domestic waste contains 1% by weight HHW. Home products constitute thelargest percentage of HHW (42.3%), followed by automotive products(17.2%), and personal care products (15.4%), and healthcare products (12.3%).Personal care products are the most category of HHW that is thrown randomly(78.7%), while automotive products were the least (40.9%). Contrary, theautomotive products category was the most kept for HHW collection (30.9%)and also for recycle (12.1%) compared to other categories.To meet the challenges of the risks and dangers associated with HHW,organized awareness strategy should be adopted and implemented throughinstitutional framework on all levels and through all means and to be directedto all stakeholders.Integrated solid waste management approach should be adopted to cover all theSW issues from generation, handling and collecting, transfer, and disposal.Intervention and innovation solutions should be adopted, among these may beseparation HHW at source, separation of HHW at landfill from other waste,and cooperation with private sector for economical reuse or recycle of HHW.Further studies on the issue of HHW should be carried out to focus on thissubject that is neglected most of the time and in most places. Studies shouldcover the HHW accidents, detailed effect of citizens habits and demographicconditions on their practice and behavior toward HHW, and to detectdifferences due to geographic and urbanization variations.

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رقم الوثيقة

0d0e1f4f-9c42-4bd2-9fe5-03338f561f43

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0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

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أسماء الملفات

2011876_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ترجمة العنوان

التقييم البيئي لادارة النفايات المنزلية الخطرة في مدينة الخليل

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Environmental Assessment of Household Hazardous Waste Managementin Hebron City

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عدد الصفحات

0

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الإشراف

عصام الخطيب

الإعداد

وسيم التميمي

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