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Nablus JSC field visit to the Jericho landfill

The Project of Technical Assistance in Solid Waste Management in Palestine aims at increasing the capacity and institutional capabilities of the five targeted JSCs (Qalqilia, Tubas, Nablus, N+NW Jerusalem and SE+NE Jerusalem). Therefore several field visits were conducted for other operating JSCs in the SWM field in order to exchange information and experience.

Seven field visits were conducted, on average of two visits for each JSC. The visits targeted the Management Board and the General assembly. Each tour included several activities in the field, by which one tour was conducted to Bethlehem JSC in which the attendance discussed the financial matters related to the SWM as well as conducting a visit to the new headquarter for Bethlehem JSC. Another visit was conducted to the Higher JSC of Hebron and Bethlehem (ALminya Landfill), the visit included discussions about the financial, administrative and technical details, as well as visiting the sanitary landfill facilities which included the compost production facility, a tour around the landfill cells to get introduced to the waste coverage process and the Leachate pool and treatment procedures. Afterwards the attendance visited the transfer station in Hebron area which included the separation unit and Medical waste treatment unit. The last two visits were destined to Jericho JSC, by which the participants exchanged technical and financial information and visited the compost production facility in Jericho in addition to the location of the new enlargement project in order to learn more about the process of building up a sanitary landfill and the correct isolation layers.

Wrote by:
Ms. Nisreen Abu Libdeh
Field Coordinator/ Public Awareness Specialist
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Eng. Yosrea Ramadan
Environmental Engineer/ Solid Waste Specialist
MoLG – DJSC