Financial Feasibility of the Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Jordan

Abstract

The article dwells on the questions of financial feasibility and cost efficiency of the Jordanian municipal solid waste management (MSWM) system. There are the tasks that have been fulfilled: general characteristics, facts and constraints in the MSWM system of Jordan have been discovered: capital costs (capital expenditures, CapEx) alongside with operation and maintenance costs (operation expenses, OpEx) structure in the Jordanian MSWM system have been analyzed; revenues coming from the municipal services fees have been indicated; comments on the efficiency of a mechanism of collection of solid waste fees have been made. Authors conclude with recommendations on financial feasibility of the Jordanian MSWM system: the long-term objective should incorporate the hierarchy of combined solid waste management activities (reduce, re-use, recycling, recovery, prevention, treatment, disposal), and environmental principles like proximity 1 , the extended producer responsibility (EPR), a polluter-pays (PPP), the precautionary.