Household Waste Management Challenges the Case of Constantine, Algeria

Abstract Household waste management is considered one of the main problems in developing countries, especially in large cities due to high population growth and improved living standards of the population. In Constantine, this phenomenon appears to be more acute in the main urban centers due to the enormous amount of household waste. In most Algerian cities, solid waste is piled up in huge quantities in landfills and disposed of in a traditional way without recycling and utilization of this waste. Urban expansion and commercial activities have increased waste production, while the waste management techniques used are still old. Hence our research study came to analyze and study the management of household waste in the capital of the East, Constantine, through a spatio-temporal approach, practices of household waste management in order to assess the status of this management and integrated and modern planning of waste management.