 In recent years, according to studies conducted on the subject, economic development in Tunisia has resulted in increasing the quantities of special industrial waste. Waste from industrial activities of various sectors is estimated at around 150 thousand tons per year (excluding phospho-gypsum and mine waste). |
| In this framework, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development set up a special program including the creation of a treatment facility for such waste at Jradou (governorate of Zaghouan) and 3 storage and transfer centers in the North (Bizerte), the center (Sfax) and the south (Gabes). |
| This program will strengthen the national system for creation of landfills and transfer centers to treat household and similar waste, close and rehabilitate uncontrolled landfills and ban access of special industrial waste to these landfills. |
| In establishing facilities for treatment and disposal of hazardous waste at Jradou and in the three storage and transfer centers, and with the creation of a Steering, Monitoring and Refinancing System of Management of Hazardous Waste at ANGED, Tunisia was the first country in North Africa to have invested in a whole range of activities for the integrated management of hazardous waste. |
| These activities are part of the development plan of Tunisia which includes, among others, the following elements: |
 Treatment of pollution generated by industrial poles,
Rehabilitation and renovation of infrastructure in decrepit industrial zones,
Undertaking of evaluation and assessment surveys on the environmental situation,
Introduction of economic mechanisms and incentives to help manufacturers fight against pollution in their own businesses
( De-pollution Fund, code of incentives on investment). |
Key aspects of management of special industrial waste are detailed in a handbook and in leaflets.
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 Geographic Information System (GIS) |
| A geographic Information System (GIS) is an information system which organizes and provides spatially referenced alphanumerical data and provides plans and maps. |
| In collecting geographical data, waste holders (producers, carriers, and disposal contractors/operators) are viewed on digital maps. This system allows locating all three waste holders, classifying them according to selected standards such as place (governorate), sector of industrial activity and type of facility, and describing them in a data card. |
