Environment Ministry names improving hazardous, plastic waste management among new strategic goals
Aiming to define waste management policy and goals at the national level for a 15-year period, the state strategy also seeks to provide the “best international experience” in the process of developing waste management in the country. Photo: environment.cenn.org
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Improving hazardous and plastic waste management are among four new strategic objectives of the 2016-2030 National Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan, the Environment Ministry announced on Monday.
Creation and implementation of biodegradable waste collection and treatment systems and improvement of inert, construction and demolition waste management are also part of the change, in addition to nine already existing strategic objectives.
Aiming to define waste management policy and goals at the national level for a 15-year period, the state strategy also seeks to provide the “best international experience” in the process of developing waste management in the country.
The ministry also pointed out the forming of new tasks had been based on the “new reality”, adding the new 2022-2026 National Action Plan was also being approved and covered full provision of municipal waste collection service for all settlements and implementation of the system of separate collection of municipal household waste.
Additionally, the new national plan seeks to establish new landfills and transfer stations in compliance with international standards and close old landfills, as well as promote plastic waste prevention and treatment measures.
Several members of parliament have initiated amendments to the code of waste management, according to which the individuals who deliberately burn municipal waste, including leaves, garden/park waste, domestic waste in the open air or inside an inappropriate burning device, will be fined by 500 GEL ($178).
A total of 566 cases of violation of waste management code were recorded in 2018 in Georgia, announces the Environment Protection Supervision Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection.
All manufacturers in Georgia who place a product onto the market will be obliged to reduce negative environmental impact that may follow its production, use, waste recovery or disposal.
A new programme will be launched in 2019 to co-finance a new enterprise that will process forest waste, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture.
Solomon Pavliashvili, the Deputy Minister of Environment of Georgia, on Thursday joined an event in the United Nations General Assembly Hall that marked the first-ever International Day of Zero Waste, in support of the initiative on behalf of Georgia.