JILALI AKKA
Solid Waste Guide is written and edited by Jilali AKKA, a public health professional with a degree in environmental health techniques and close to three decades of field experience in disease control and sanitation.
That work covered food hygiene inspection, vector control, drinking water quality monitoring, and wastewater management — the practical end of environmental health, where the question is not what a regulation says but whether a given site actually complies with it. It included extensive professional training through national public health programs, some of it certified by the World Health Organization.
Why That Background Matters Here
Solid waste sits in the same discipline as the rest of environmental health. A container specification exists because of what happens when waste is stored badly: vectors, leachate, odor, and the injuries that come from lifting more than a person can carry. Reading a municipal specification sheet and understanding why the taper, the weight ceiling and the lid are there is the same skill as reading a food premises inspection checklist.
How US-Specific Facts Are Handled
This site is written for an American audience, and the author's field experience is not American. That is addressed directly in the method rather than glossed over: no claim about American practice on this site rests on the author's recollection or on general professional knowledge.
Every US-specific fact — a dimension, a weight limit, a regulatory ceiling, a set-out rule — is taken from a primary American source: the Code of Federal Regulations, federal agencies, state environmental departments, named municipal collection programs, or consensus standards. Those sources are recorded for every page. Where American programs disagree with each other, the page shows the range rather than picking one.
Other Work
The same author publishes Wastewater Basics, which covers household and municipal wastewater on the same sourcing standard.
Contact
Questions about a source, a figure, or a correction can go through the contact page