[Scrutinizing the status of solid waste collection and exclusion in the military units climbing mount Sabalan [North West of Iran]]

Background: The collection and exclusion of waste has always been a problem for mankind. In natural environments and mountainous plays as for their popularity in mountain climbing, tourist visits and people camping there, it is of much interest to people and therefor the collection and exclusion of rubbish in the mentioned places must be of more concern. As there was little studies conducted in this field, there was a need for practical and scientific studies about rubbish in mountainous locations

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Material and Method: there is 485 grams of rubbish percapita including 18.6% food cans, 9.3% recycled food plates, 53.6% cardboards and it's sorts and 2% decaying substances. Also according to the analysis of the questionaire, the average of being a member in "Basij" [Volum teer helping] was 13.47%, having, mountain climbing experperience was 5.87% and age was 33.93%. The carried out survey shows that the speed and status of rubbish contamination in this camp is undesirable

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Result: from all of the question were completed, 94% of them emphasize the importance of rubbish exclusion and named training mountain climbers, using small and high energy foods, and necessitating the climbers to collect the rubbish and exclude them in a certain place as the solutions to minimizing rubbish in mountainous places and military aggregations

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Conclusion: Also the rate of the people's familiarity with rubbish collection and exclusion methods had direct relation ship with their membership time in Basij, mountain climbing experience and their age