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Clean Up Georgia Project (Phase III)



Waste Management Problems in Kakheti Region


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Georgian Society of Nature Explorers “Orchis” organized meetings in
Sagarejo, Gurjaani, Sighnaghi, Kvareli, Dedoplistskaro, Lagodekhi and
Akhmeta Municipalities, Kakheti Region. The following waste management
issues were revealed during the meetings:



*         Necessity supply sufficient number of containers and trucks for
waste collection;

*         Availability of clean-up services for entire population of the
Region; waste collection and removal are not ensured in majority of
villages;

*         Difficulties with raising of waste collection fee;

*         Necessity to enforce legal liabilities for waste dumping;

*         Presence of uncontrolled (illegal) dumpsites in rural areas and
adjacent to food markets;

*         Problem related to the construction waste management, and
specifically, environmental pollution with construction waste;

*         Necessity to implement waste separation and minimization measures
(e.g. composting) and estimation of their cost-effectiveness;

*         Need to adopt and enforce a law that ensures proper management of
organic waste generated from wineries;

*         Necessity to implement waste management system in Tusheti;

*         Shortcomings of the existing waste management system: problems
with the involvement of private sector and lack of information;

*         Lack of information about existing waste recycling facilities;

*         Shortage of information on the current legislation and National
Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan;

*         Shortage of information about international funds;

*         Ensuring the involvement of population and mass media in waste
management process by the local self-government, and necessity to comprise
all age-groups and especially school students by awareness raising measures.



The project “Clean Up Georgia” is being implemented by a consortium of NGOs:
Georgian Society of Nature Explorers “Orchis”, “Greens Movement of Georgia/
Friends of the Earth-Georgia” and “Raising of Ecological Awareness and Waste
Management” with the financial support of the Government of Sweden, with the
support of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of
Georgia, in cooperation with the Ltd “Solid Waste Management Company of
Georgia”.



Georgian Society of Nature Explorers “Orchis”

10a Tashkenti St., 0160, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel: (+995 32) 2385199; Mobile: (+ 995 599) 775237

E-mail:  <mailto:orch...@yahoo.com> orch...@yahoo.com

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