Damascus Governorate is offering a city cleaning, solid waste management and recycling project covering all of Damascus under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) arrangement. The investor carries out cleaning, waste management and recycling at its own expense in return for usufruct rights over the solid waste, while the governorate receives a share of net profit. The scope spans every stage of the waste chain: collection and treatment, haulage to treatment centres or landfill sites, construction of a treatment plant handling sorting and recovery of reusable materials, compost production and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) production, and landfilling of non-recoverable residues.

• Location: the whole of Damascus city
• Estimated cost: USD 100 million
• Owner: Damascus Governorate
• Contract type: build-operate-transfer (BOT)
• Waste volume as stated in the listing: 2,500 tonnes per day in Damascus, with a stated future expansion to 7,500 tonnes once Rif Dimashq waste is added

What this means for a rebuilding company: this is infrastructure plus operations, not a single building. The civil package covers the treatment plant with its halls, industrial flooring and heavy-equipment foundations; site works including roads, weighbridges, drainage and leachate treatment; and landfill cells with earthworks, lining and gas collection systems. The mechanical and electrical package covers sorting lines, conveyors, shredders, composting equipment and an RDF unit, together with control panels and power supply. The operating package runs for years and requires a collection and haulage fleet plus maintenance workshops — which opens the door to equipment suppliers and O&M firms, not only to contractors.

Source: Syrian Investment Agency — data as published in the official listing, accessed 2026-08-21.