[
    {
        "id": "osp-13468",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Composition of Solid Waste in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, a Mountain Region Undergoing Rapid Urbanization in Northern Oman",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al-Mahrouqi",
                "given": "Abdullah Issa"
            },
            {
                "family": "Victor",
                "given": "Reginald"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/composition-of-solid-waste-in-al-jabal-al-akhdar-a-mountain-region-undergoing-rapid-urbanization-in-northern-oman",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2017
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science",
        "volume": "22",
        "issue": "1",
        "page": "1",
        "DOI": "10.24200/squjs.vol22iss1pp1-9",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2308-3921",
        "abstract": "There is a lack of data on the generation and composition of waste in rural areas worldwide. The present study analyzed the composition of solid waste in Al Jabal Al Akhdar, a rural mountain region in the Sultanate of Oman, which is presently experiencing a rapid rate of urbanization due to tourism development. The solid wastes here are generated by the municipality collecting waste from residential, commercial, institutional and recreational areas, the military from a training camp and a few non-governmental private companies from their camps and hotels. The whole load from each of the three sources was manually segregated each month from June 2013 – May 2014. The results indicated that plastic is the dominant category in the wastes collected by the municipality and accounts for 26.7%, followed by paper (17.9%) and then food (14.4%). Food is the dominant category in the wastes collected by the military and private companies and accounts for 36.5% and 45.5% respectively. Management issues associated with solid waste are briefly considered. The study concluded that the municipality should implement an improved system for the collection of plastic waste and initiate a system for recycling it; the military and private companies should reduce the quantities of food waste by improved planning and management of the catering services."
    }
]