8) waste and waste water collection and purification services

Mechanization of solid waste collection and disposal systems in Saida, 1997

Most coastal urban centres do not have a municipal policy for solid waste management

The main land based sources of marine litter are municipal landfills (waste dumps) located on the coast, riverine transport of waste from landfills and other sources, discharges of untreated municipal sewage and storm water, industrial facilities, medical waste and tourism (recreational visitors, beach goers).

Coastal urban centres are generating annually 30 to 40 million tonnes of municipal solid waste.

Similarly, burning municipal solid waste to recover energy produces trace amounts of mercury and dioxins.

Municipal waste water discharges are one of the most significant threats to coastal environments worldwide.

Rehabilitation of the Gaza municipal waste water treatment plant was completed in October 1997 after retendering of the contract.

Furthermore, municipal services have a reduced capacity for dealing with waste matter, because of a shortage of equipment and lack of spare parts.

The primary purpose of the database is to provide information for the collection of land use taxes so as to increase municipal revenues.

In developing countries, many city authorities are unable to collect and transport more than a third of the solid waste generated due to limited municipal budgets.

Those programmes address issues such as urban poverty reduction, crime prevention and access to basic services such as water, sanitation and waste collection.

Adequate water and sanitation provision, together with hygiene education and efficient solid waste collection and disposal, are crucial to safeguarding public health in human settlements.

(b) Provision to camps in the Jordan and West Bank fields of additional vehicles and containers for the mechanization of solid waste collection and disposal

In addition, the programme has contributed to environmental health in refugee camps by upgrading water, sewage and solid waste management infrastructures and integrating them with municipal and regional systems.

Rehabilitation of the Gaza municipal waste water treatment plant was delayed by accidental damage to a treatment pond and the need to retender the contract completion was expected soon.

In addition, Habitat is repairing the Herat city drainage system, and is working with communities to build latrines and solid waste bins and organizing the collection and disposal of solid waste, as well as improving access and modifying water supply systems.

Municipal policy

Municipal Legislation

Municipal districts

Municipal administration

Municipal actions

Rent of Qalqilia Municipal Hospital Rent of Qalqilia Municipal Hospital, 1997

Questions were raised about the specific experience of African municipalities in the areas of waste management and garbage collection, disaster control and participatory approaches to urban planning.

There's a waste of time there's a waste of space there's a waste of energy and there's a waste of waste.

A number of recommendations address waste water collection, treatment and reuse, including the need to provide financial and technical assistance to national and local authorities in deploying cost effective and environmentally sound sewerage and waste water treatment systems, including decentralized urban systems.32

The revenues from this tax are earmarked for promoting community recycling programmes.Bartone, C.R., Economic Policy Issues in Resources Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste, Resource, Conservation and Recycling, 1990, ElSevier Publishing, p.3.

(d) Guidance provision of guidance on various waste management options and best practice (for example, obtainment of compost or anaerobic digestion of organic waste, installation of whole site landfill gas collection, followed by its utilization (or flaring, where applicable) at new sites receiving biodegradable waste, and at existing sites, if remaining capacity and gas production is likely)

Municipal Economy Act.

Municipal Revenues Act.

State (municipal) housing

A. Municipal level

E. Waste disposal and waste management

1998 Municipal Elections Representation of both men and women, by region, in Municipal Assemblies.

Civil society action supported initiatives of the Ministry of Environment with respect to a number of other main environmental issues, including collection, processing and disposal of solid waste and of dangerous and toxic waste, quarrying, forest fires, use of asbestos pipes and promotion of renewable energy.

Around 700,000 people from different regions are covered by organized collection, removal and waste handling that includes 44 depots (45 public utility companies), and none meet the sanitary hygiene requirements.

The law further defines the scientific and technical principles, criteria, means and methods to be complied with in the transportation, collection and storage of harmful and dangerous substances and the elimination of related waste, as well as methods to be applied for their transportation, collection and storage.

Number of municipal councils

Is this municipal administration?

Around 80 per cent of the municipal assembly and municipal committee meetings provide adequate translation.

Municipalities construct housing units on municipal plots using funds from the Housing Construction Municipal Fund.

CH4 from enteric fermentation, animal waste and waste

The supervision and administration of the municipal schools, mainly the Folkeskole, rests with the municipal council.

Health care centres, hospitals and related establishments are under municipal administration and financed from municipal budgets.

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