Abstract: Abstract: Solid waste is generated continuously everywhere in our modern world and in Kuwait it is no exception. This paper presents Kuwait in terms of municipal solid waste (MSW) and municipal solid waste landfills (MSWL) and its impact on the environment, especially groundwater. Due to the recent rapid economic growth in Kuwait, municipal solid waste (MSW) production is growing rapidly as well. To minimize municipal solid waste and its negative impacts, it is important to assess its causes to be able to manage it properly. Kuwait follows a conventional municipal solid waste handling method by dumping the waste into allocated landfills, without properly compacting, covering, containing, or treating it. Therefore, the groundwater flowing under those municipal solid waste landfills is mostly contaminated, which is a health and safety issue that needs to be addressed. Now since the Environmental Protection Law No. 42 of 2014 and its Executive Regulation of 2017 are officially legally effective, more environmental efforts needed to spread pollution prevention awareness. For example, society members and politicians need to understand the pollution prevention hierarchy of avoiding, reducing, reusing, recycling and disposing. By minimizing the negative environmental practices, the related economical costs will minimize as well.
Couple of environmental studies here analysed the recent environmental situation in Kuwait and its impact on the environment, to provide scientifically engineered action plans to help manage environmental issues better and control its negative impacts, to protect the public health.
Keywords: municipal solid waste (MSW), municipal solid waste landfills (MSWL), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Driving Forces-Pressure-State-Impacts-Responses (DPSIR), and groundwater.
Title: THE STATE OF KUWAIT IN TERMS OF SOLID WASTE, LANDFILLS AND GROUNDWATER
Author: Hamad Al-Jassam
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering Research
ISSN 2348-7607 (Online)
Vol. 11, Issue 2, October 2023 - March 2024
Page No: 1-5
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 23-October-2023
