Determinants of Household Solid Waste Generation and Composition in Homs City, Syria

Table 7

Waste composition (%) in developing countries.

Area	Organic	Paper	Plastic	Glass	Metal	Others	Source
Phnom Penh/Cambodia	63.3	6.4	15.5	1.2	0.6	13.0	[68]
Mekong Delta/Vietnam	80.0	4.7	6.3–7.1	0.7–1.0	0.5–0.7	0.9–1.4	[32]
Bangkok/Thailand	43.0	12.1	10.9	6.6	3.5	23.9	[69]
Bahrain/Bahrain Kingdom	59.6	9.9	13.4	5.5	3.4	9.2	[70]
Baghdad/Iraq	70.0	5.0	5.3	2.2	2.2	15.3	[71]
Amman/Jordan	54.4	14	13.2	2.8	2.4	13.2	[72]
Abadan/Iran	66.9	11.2	14.3	2.8	1.35	3.45	[73]
Chittagong/Bangladesh	62.0	3.0	2.0	5.0	9.0	3.0	[38]
Kathmandu/Nepal	71.0	7.5	12.0	1.3	0.5	7.9	[58]
Lagos/Nigeria	68.0	10.0	7.0	4.0	3.0	8	[74]
Cape Haitian/Haiti	65.5	9.0	9.2	5.8	2.6	7.9	[30]
Bhutan	62.2	15.2	13.1	2.7	0.7	6.1	[61]
Chihuahua/Mexico	48.0	16.1	11.9	5.9	2.4	16.0	[64]
Ghana	61.0	5.0	14.0	3.0	3.0	14.0	[19]
Nablus/Palestine	65.1	9.1	7.6	2.9	2.8	5.4	[33]
Moratuwa/Sri Lanka	90.0	5.0	3.0	2.0	1.0	—	[75]
Allahabad/India	45.3	4.69	2.86	0.73	2.54	43.88	[76]
Portugal	35.5	25.9	11.5	5.4	2.6	19.1	[34]
Kraków/Poland	36.2	19.9	14.4	7.8	2.9	18.8	[77]
Castellón de la Plana/Spain	57.0	15.0	10.0	7.0	4.0	7.0	[78]
London, Ontario/Canada	30.0	32.0	10.0	6.0	3.0	19.0	[79]