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Waste collection services are available only to about 60% of
residents, and as a result waste is dumped in forests, along
roadsides, beside water bodies and other illegal sites.
An objective of environmental policy is to decrease the impact
of waste on the environment by development of a new waste
management system that will ensure waste collection and storage in
accordance with sanitary and environmental standards.
According to the Law On Waste Management (2000), a national
plan for waste management will be developed before 2001, which
will include also a plan for hazardous waste management. It is
illegal to combine several waste types, and to import waste of any
type for interment or long-term storage.
The goals of the Municipal Waste Management Strategy (1998) are:
- to decrease the number of waste dump sites by 50% until
2000;
- centralized collection of 90% of the produced waste before
2002;
- clean-up of work sites where illegal waste dumping has
occurred prior to 2001;
- decrease the amount of waste to be stored by 20% before
2005, by lowering amounts of waste production at their sources,
by promoting recycled use of waste, reprocessing of waste
materials, and production of energy from waste.
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