Challenges

Out of the total amount of waste that is exported from Ma’an Governorate (estimated at 90,000 tons per day), 60% is food waste and leftovers. This results in health, social, and economic problems. The waste affects the quality of groundwater and results in high financial cost of disposal. Furthermore, the local community suffers from many problems caused by food waste and leftovers, as getting rid of them through burial in the ground leads to a reduction in soil fertility, environmental pollution, and health damage to humans and animals in the surrounding environment.  

Solutions

Ma’an Youth Society for Environmental Conservation contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by recycling food waste and leftovers to produce compost, which provides the nutritional minerals needed by agricultural land to increase yields. Recycling organic waste and converting it into high-value and useful organic products (fertilizer, soil and compost) is important and profitable. It also plays an important role in protecting the environment. Safe fertilizers also ensure the production of healthy crops of vegetables and fruits by meeting farmers’ needs, a clean environment, savings on water consumption. Ma’an’s factory produces many important organic products, namely: 

1. Solid organic fertilizers
2. Organic potting soil
3. Organic compost production