1 A Baseline Study for Municipal Solid Waste Characterization for the State of Kuwait Rawa Al- Jarallah 1 and Esra Aleisa Rawa Al-Jarallah, PhD Civil Engineering Department College of Engineering and Petroleum Kuwait University Khaldia Bldg. # 14KH, 2nd Floor Department of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering College of Engineering & Petroleum Kuwait University Email: rawa1@yahoo.com; rawa@civil.kuniv.edu.kw P.O. Box 5969 Safat 13060 Kuwait Tel + (965) 2498-5769 Fax: + (965) 2481-7524 Esra Aleisa, PhD Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department College of Engineering and Petroleum Kuwait University Khaldia Bldg. # 8KH, 3 rd Floor P.O box 5969 Safat 13060 Kuwait Kuwait Email: e.aleisa@ku.edu.kw ; aleisaE@gmail.com Tel: + (965) 2498-5249 (Office) Tel: + (965) 2498-7527 (Secretary) Fax: + (965) 2481-6137 1 Corresponding Author