Solid waste management is a complex problem facing decision makers in Tartous,
especially in the process of selecting appropriate of solid waste land fill sites, because of
the nature of the province that rich in natural resources and high populati
on density. There
is a large number of large landfills that aren’t in convenient locations, and affect to
neighboring regions environment, adversely affect to the social life in the surrounding
communities.
In this research we identified the criteria that will be on the basis of evaluation of the
locations of these landfills to achieve environmental, social and economic conditions.
GIS was used to produce maps for each classification criterion separately to evaluate
the landfills according to each criterion, in order to extract information from weighted map
to get the appropriate locations.
The study concluded that landfills sites unrealized for the majority of the standards,
and to get a map showing the optimum locations of 18 sites with combined areas doesn’t
exceed 0,012% of the total study area.
