New national waste management strategy to reduce number of landfills

AMMAN — The national strategy for solid waste management, which the government had adopted as a development plan continuing till 2024, includes reducing the number of waste landfills to nine and replacing them with 21 transformational stations nationwide.

Under the strategy, municipalities will have eight landfills and the Greater Amman Municipality will have one landfill, and the plan execution will commence from the beginning of next year after establishing the stations with a cost of JD40 million, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.