Syria govt to treat waste in partnership with private sector: PM

Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous stressed the need to benefit from the rubbish sector and launch projects to treat it in partnership with the private sector and turn it into a source of income.

 

Local media reported that the director of waste treatments in Damascus suburbs, Maurice Haddad, had announced last year the existence of two waste recycling projects in the Ghazlaniya and Rakhleh areas, with the possibility of investment by Chinese, Indian and Iranian companies.

 

The Al-Iqtisadi.Syria website said that the notion of ​​treating rubbish in Syria dates back to 1990, when a plant was established to treat and recycle waste and convert it into fertilizer in the Ghazlaniya town in Damascus suburbs, then another plant was established in the coastal governorate of Tartous in 2011. The third is within the Quneitra governorate, but it has been suspended since 2011.