The head of the Environmental Affairs Committee in the Municipal Council, Eng. Alia Al-Farsi, spoke of the need to benefit from waste in accordance with the terms of reference of the Kuwait Municipality, to keep pace with future urban development.
Al-Farsi told Al-Qabas daily, after a field visit by a number of members to the solid and asbestos landfill sites in Mina Abdullah that this visit to the last landfill site in Kuwait, which is Mina Abdullah, which has an area of approximately two million square meters, and receives municipal waste — solid, household, agricultural and commercial, sand and non-hazardous industrial waste should be converted at treatment sites, as well as work on treating and rehabilitating it in order to recover the lands in it.
The members revealed that the fourth structural plan identified sites designated for solid waste management to establish future treatment sites.
Committee member Eng Munira Al-Amir said “Our visit aims to see the real situation of these landfills.”
Eng Al-Amir revealed that she had taken several steps to help develop the cleaning file, and it was approved, including the use of expert houses to lay the technical foundations for cleaning contracts, and to determine control standards and cost levels, with an emphasis on the need for national cadres to live with this advisory team, as well as classify cleaning companies, and review tenders and mechanisms.
She said, “We are currently working on issuing the new hygiene regulations, which will contribute to setting up an integrated work system for the disposal of various wastes to develop the status quo as soon as possible, by using modern technology for sorting and recycling, and urging our national cadres and the private sector to be part of this system.”
She added, “saving our natural resources from exposure to further pollution, we are certain that all concerned parties in the hygiene file will work to provide all means of cooperation required to solve this crisis.
Another member Eng Farah Al-Roumi said “The waste collection and sorting mechanism, the size or space of the available landfills, and their compatibility with the nature and quantity of the waste, were reviewed. The amount of waste received at the Mina Abdullah landfill is about 2,500 tons per day.”
Al-Roumi indicated, “The aim of these field visits is to get a closer look at and assess the current situation to determine the needs and solutions required to enact appropriate regulations and laws, especially that the municipal Council is in the process of preparing a new regulation for cleanliness, and the system currently used in landfill sites must be shifted to dispose of and replace municipal solid waste with a modern environmental system for waste treatment and recycling, as well as reducing the waste of large areas used for backfilling.”
Read Today's News TODAY... on our Telegram Channel click here to join and receive all the latest updates t.me/thetimeskuwait
