The zero-waste design for the municipal solid waste management in Baghdad city

Abstract

Zero-waste is ideological for facing waste difficulties in our community. The purpose is to start developing and performed in different areas including waste management and treatment, mining, construction, and city development. The zero-waste idea has been welcomed by policymakers because it animates sustainable production and consumption, best recycling, and resource improvement. Experts in waste management systems, however, understand and implement it in different ways. The present study aims to imagine a zero-waste strategy within Baghdad city based on the available data and published in the literature to get an optimum resource recovery from generated waste, by assuming a recycling factory working at a capacity of 7500 tons/day, in three basic units (composting unit 5000 ton/day, composting unit 1500, ton/day, and inert materials unit 1000 ton/day), theses expected capacities of each unit built on Baghdad municipality percentages of each type of waste (57% organic materials, 23% energy sources materials, and 20% for inert materials such as construction waste). From the findings can be concluded that Baghdad city can reach the desired goal (zero-waste) by recycling its waste and implementing a comprehensive management system that includes education, sustainable production, and consumption. Very few investigations have been observed in the fields of zero-waste design, this study shows that the field of zero-waste knowledge is various, and a zero-waste concept is continually growing through different strategies, plans, procedures, and policies. The judgments of this study propose that zero-waste programs are applied in many countries without any holistic zero-waste strategy. The study indicates that countries might be ready to reach zero-waste purposes of explaining general zero-waste plans and by uniting and promoting zero-waste actions (in cities and manufacturers).