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Article: JORDAN: CONCERN OVER DECISION TO EST. HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT PLANT IN SWAQA.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 31, 2005
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According to "Jordan Times", a decision to establish a company to run a hazardous waste treatment plant in Swaqa, 70km south of Amman, was issued by a ministerial committee. Because the country has not yet established a waste treatment plant, accumulating hazardous and medical waste has posed an environmental and economic problem, a senior official in the Ministry of Environment revealed. According to the World Bank, 25,600 tons of industrial hazardous waste and 3,470 tons of medical hazardous waste were produced in 2002. By 2015, industrial hazardous waste is estimated to increase to an annual 52,780 tons and medical hazardous waste to an annual 5,100 tons. Most hazardous ...