Abstract:
The human characteristics affecting the amount of solid waste in the study area were studied through field visits to the area and various personal interviews with workers in commercial, industrial and medical activities, as well as interviews with residents of the residential neighborhood in collecting information about solid waste disposal, including the times of its removal by workers municipality, solid waste treatment, etc., and population and municipal data were collected by government departments in the center of Nasiriyah district. Our research included two axes, the first one specialized in studying human characteristics and their actual contribution to increasing the amount of solid waste and its impact on the soil, including the size of the official and squatter population and calculating the amount of waste that the Iraqi individual raises to both neighborhoods per day, month and year, and the social factors that would contribute to raising the amount of waste Waste represented by the educational and cultural level, holidays and public and private occasions, the standard of living income per capita, the nature of the area and the nature of its streets, political and security factors. While the second axis included the study of municipal services in terms of their level of service, number of workers and mechanisms, and calculating the amount of waste raised and presented by the municipal departments distributed in the study area.
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