Abstract
While the costs for collecting and transporting domestic solid wastes in Istanbul are 31.53 $/ton and 8.16 $/ton respectively, the cost for disposing domestic solid wastes (including landfill leachate treatment, landfill construction and operation cost of landfills and composting facility) is 9.68 $/ton. In this case, collection, transportation and disposal of a ton of solid waste costs approximately 49.40 $. A significant rate of 64.19% of the total costs of domestic solid waste activities in Istanbul is constituted by the cost of collecting domestic solid wastes. As for the transportation and disposal costs of solid wastes, they occupy 15.52% and 20.29%, respectively, of the total cost. In this study, data pertaining to the analysis of collection of domestic solid wastes by district municipalities, transportation of the wastes to transfer stations, transportation from transfer stations to landfill areas, disposal in the landfill areas and the general cleaning works all around Istanbul, and the costs of waste disposal and city cleaning were analyzed.