Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
This
present study aims to evaluate the quantity of household waste rejected by type
of habitat and by household size for 6 days for the city of Conakry in the
Republic of Guinea. This study focused on the five (5) municipalities of the
city of Conakry, namely: Matoto, Matam, Kaloum, Dixin and Ratoma. The habitats
were classified by size as follows: high standing, medium standing and low
standing. The main results obtained during this research are as follows: for
the Municipality of Matoto, the quantity of household waste rejected during 6
days at the level of the High standing habitat is (99.1 kg), that of Low
standing is 94.4 kg and for the Medium standing is 87.7 kg, although the
household size at the High Standing level is smaller nine (9) people compared
to the other two with eleven (11) people respectively. This difference could be
due to the difference in the purchasing power of the constituent members of the
different levels that is to say simply the difference in the standard of
living. For the Commune of Ratoma, the greatest quantity is observed at the
level of the Low standing (99.8 kg) followed by the High standing with 94.7 kg
of garbage. This situation can be explained by the size of the Commune with a
large population, as well as the large number of sources of waste production
that are the many markets and the many units of packaging factories of all
kinds.
Country : Guinea
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2023 pp. 30-35