Georgia Solid Waste Sector Assessment Report
Since 2015, a year of the adoption of the Waste Management Code, Georgia has achieved significant progress towards an integrated solid waste management system. Regardless, there are several solid waste management challenges that the country struggl...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/535371622781111161/Georgia-Solid-Waste-Sector-Assessment-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35704 |
| Summary: | Since 2015, a year of the adoption of
the Waste Management Code, Georgia has achieved significant
progress towards an integrated solid waste management
system. Regardless, there are several solid waste management
challenges that the country struggles to overcome and is far
from meeting the ambitious targets detailed in the National
Solid Waste Management Strategy, which is harmonized with
European Union standards. Some of the challenges include the
need for improving waste collection coverage; reducing waste
quantities in landfills; managing waste in an
environmentally sound, safe manner; eliminating illegal
dumping and littering through better waste collection,
monitoring, and law enforcement; transforming municipal
solid waste (MSW) management service delivery organizations
from almost fully subsidized entities into truly autonomous,
self-sufficient organizations with full cost-recovery; and
introducing circular economy principles, including those for
waste prevention, re-use, redesign, recycling and recovery.
With a view to identify key solid waste sector gaps looking
at the sector holistically and suggest short to longer-term
interventions together with required investments, in
mid-January 2021 the World Bank launched a solid waste
sector study. The study was carried out by a team of local
and international experts using combined methods of a desk
review of existing literature and data, interviews with key
decision-makers (e.g. representatives of the Ministry of
Environmental Protection and Agriculture (MEPA), Solid Waste
Management Company of Georgia (SWMCG) and cleaning /amenity
services of local municipalities), questionnaire surveys of
local municipalities, a gap analysis and, a spatial analysis
via application of Geo-Information Systems (GIS). This paper
seeks to assess high-level, solid waste management in
Georgia to identify gaps in implementation of the National
Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) and National Waste
Management Action Plan (NWMAP) and to propose solutions
linked to an operational roadmap and a program for short-,
medium-, and long-term interventions for hard and soft investments. |
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