Introduction III Control procedure of the transboundary movement of waste 2

TUNISIA A controlled landfill for household wastes for the city of Tunis	Specially engineered landfill with appropriate treatment facilities	D5	700000
No
Four controlled landfills for household wastes in the Medjerdah River basin	Specially engineered landfill with appropriate treatment facilities especially for composting	D5	50000	No
For further sources of information on disposal facilities the Ministry of for the Environment and Land Use Planning could be contacted. In 1996, 68 dump sites were identified as needing to be closed at the cost of some 55 million US$. A plan to close and rehabilitate these dump sites was drawn up. The execution studies for the establishment of 29 controlled landfills in the targeted townships have been completed; A centre of hazardous wastes treatment (with a capacity of 85000 metric tonnes) will be ready by 2002; and An incinerator of clinical wastes from medical care, for the region of Tunis, will be ready by 2001.