Abstract
Palestine has been in conflict with Israel for a long time. It has had various problems with its waste management administration and proper implementation. However, since the late 2000s, waste collection has become widespread and operations have started at three landfills. These landfills were constructed by the World Bank and Japan, with their structures and operations observing international standards. In practice, however a multitude of issues have arisen, creating a specific need for a manual that outlines how to establish proper landfill management. This paper describes the manual for landfill environmental auditing created by the author, who is part of a JICA project. In the absence of standards and guidelines regarding landfills, it was necessary to first establish standards for conducting audits. In the arid Palestinian climate, however, it was difficult to use in a fully straightforward manner the standards set for several other countries and various innovative measures were required in this case. In particular, for leachate management, environmental monitoring, stabilization, soil covering, odor evaluation, etc., it is necessary to create indicators according to these specific regional characteristics.
