Tiraspol, July 11. / Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The program for management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is drafted in Pridnestrovie. The question was brought up during the meeting of Council for development of small and average business in the Ministry of Economic Development at the Government.
Everything began with a discussion of the ban on the use of disposable plastic bags as in many European Union countries.
The head of the Public Service of Environmental Control and Environmental Protection Vasily Sotnikov noted that it was necessary to refuse plastic packages not in one stage, but step by step. Besides, it is necessary to consider the possibilities of economic agents and consumers. It will be additional expenses as the same paper packages are more expensive than polyethene.
Then participants of the meeting passed to a problem of garbage utilization. It was noted that its separate collecting was still very poorly developed and also there was no understanding of volumes and structure of waste. MSW management program will have to deal with all this.
«We began work with the idea about the construction of the MSW processing plant but faced lack information on the subject. There is no morphology of the collected waste, its nomenclature, parameters of collecting volumes, so, it is impossible to plan work of the enterprise. There is desire, we have investors, but the issue is not handled», – the Minister of Economic Development Sergey Obolonik noted.
According to him, the program will help to create the legislative base, will give an idea of the available waste nomenclature and opportunities of its processing.
At the expense of a complete solution of the question of collecting and waste recycling, it will be possible to improve also a situation with dumps and solid waste landfills.
