A Study of the Impact of Municipal Solid Waste on Some Soil Physicochemical Properties: The Case of the Landfill of Ain-El-Hammam Municipality, Algeria

Table 1

Comparison of the physical composition values of the household and equivalent waste collected from some countries of different continents.

Countries (landfills)		Waste type
		Organic matter	Paper and cardboard	Plastics	Glass	Textiles	Metals	Specials	References
Africa	Algeria (A.E.H.)	69.4	6.4	9.0	1.2	12.1	1.4	0.6	Present study
	Morocco (Marrakech)	70.0	14.3	7.1	1.5	4.8	1.0	—	[17]
	Nigeria (Amassoma)	61.3	5.4	20.0	—	4.9	—	—	[18]
	Tanzania (Kinondoni)	64.6	10.7	9.7	1.4	—	1.4	—	[19]
Asia	Jordan (Akaider)	52.0	13.0	17.0	3.0	—	1.0	0.5	[20]
	Malaysia (Iskandar)	43.5	20.9	22.2	3.5	7.7	1.5	—	[21]
	Nepal (Tulsipur)	46.0	6.0	10.0	7.0	1.0	2.2	0.7	[22]
	China (Beijing)	46.6	11.1	12.7	1.6	2.5	0.3	—	[23]
Europe	Spain (Castellón)	57.0	15.0	10.0	7.0	4.0	4.0	—	[24]
	Portugal (Porto)	44.3	7.4	11.0	4.3	5.7	2.2	0.1	[25]
	Lithuania (Kaunas)	61.2	4.7	8.8	13.5	1.7	—	—	[26]
North America	Canada (Ontario)	30.0	32.0	10.0	6.0	—	3.0	—	[27]
	USA (Illinois)	18.6	21.5	11.0	4.4	5.8	4.4	0.0	[28]
	Mexico (Ensenada)	30.2	10.4	15.3	—	8.9	—	—	[29]
South America	Argentina (Buenos Aires)	34.0	10.0	12.0	1.0	—	2.0	—	[30]
	Brazil (Belo Horizonte)	52.0	10.0	16.0	—	2.0	2.0	—	[31]
	Caribbean (Haiti)	75.0	5.0	7.0	2.0	—	3.0	—	[32]
	Australia (Sydney)	25.0	9.4	6.8	0.6	4.1	5.5	—	[33]

Paints, batteries, thermometers, neon tubes, bulbs, dyes, phytosanitary products, expired drugs, and radiographic foils.