Isfahan waste management

Isfahan City Waste Management Organization is an integrated waste management system formed in 2003 under the responsibility of the Urban Services of the Municipality of Isfahan, Iran.^[1][2]

Isfahan City Waste Management

Industry	Waste management
Founded	2003
Headquarters	Isfahan, Isfahan Province , Iran
Area served	Municipality of Isfahan
Number of employees	140

Operations

The organization employs 140 people who are tasked with handling Isfahan's approximately 950 tons of daily waste. This includes an estimate of 67 grams per-capita, 15 tons of hospital waste, and 4,000 tons of construction waste.^[a]

After processing and separating recyclable items, garbage is divided into two main categories: organic and inorganic waste.

On normal days, Isfahan's garbage is collected every two days.

Recycling

12% of Isfahan's produced waste is recycled. Throughout the city, there are seventy recycling booths and stations.^[4][5]

Composting

Isfahan's organic fertilizer factory was established in 1947 by a Swiss organization. The current factory was built in 1968 on a land of about 100 hectares, located in "Zinel Neck", an area in the east of the city.^[6]

Sustainability initiatives

The city of Isfahan had planned to reduce the amount of landfill and buried waste by 2020.^[7]

Programs

• Management Quality Control Laboratory^[8]
• Construction of a theme park for waste management education^[9]
• Obtaining an insurance plan to receive all types of waste
• Funding a pile turner machine (mixer of waste piles)^[10]
• Obtaining four new waste disposal sites^[11]
• Testing an anaerobic digester system, a pilot program for biogas production^[12]

Notes

1. The task of collecting soil and stray debris is the responsibility of individual contractors.^[3]

External links

isfahanrasad.ir