Integrated Solid Waste Management Kutaisi - Project Newsletter # 3- April 2018 Focus Topic Municipal Waste Management Plans - Implications, Challenges and Opportu- Municipal Waste nities on the way to implementation from 2018 onwards Management Plans Improve services, reduce waste and get citizens to pay 1. Improvement of services they will have to pay directly need to This includes the need for additional be reduced. Treating also green waste containers to improve the service separately has therefore attracted range, extend waste collection to particular attention from a number of remoter settlements, and separate municipalities. Partly has a centralized certain waste materials in the future. composting been envisaged but also First and foremost, paper and plastics promoting such practices and waste should be in the foreground for a separation in settlements with dicult separate collection. access to regular collection services is 2. Reduction of waste delivered to the considered. landll 3. Convincing citizens to pay for waste The municipalities have also realized management services that the amounts they handover to One of the biggest challenges for the landlling in the future and for which municipalities lies in the fact that every Final training of municipal waste management plans On 13-14 September 2017, the nal municipalities to convince the popula- training for waste management plan tion to actively contribute and support "I highly appreciate my involvement in the training, for the municipalities of the project the implementation of the new waste after the rst training details region was held in Kutaisi. The project management system. were revealed which are experts reviewed the progress to date Following this nal training most of useful not only for this plan but for general public of the plans during the nal training the municipalities submitted the draft relations, information and PR. We can now seminar, showing that some of the versions of the Waste Management make concrete steps for further implementa- municipalities have already completed Plans to the project experts for nal tion of this Action Plan, which we want to implement as quickly and accurately as the draft plans to a very good stage, consideration and consultation. possible." but also highlighting some problem- By the end of 2017, thirteen out of the Ketevan Macharashvili, Sachkhere atic issues related to determination of taris. In addition attention was drawn "The training was very impor- tant. Here we learned new to the subject of public relations and things and approaches how communication, which will be in the to best §cope with the upcom- medium and long run a key factor for ing challenges in waste management of the future. As far as our work is on the paper, foreign experts correct, make comments and give comments, which will result in the nal option. This plan leads us to nally clean up our city and clean the village. This is our goal." The Waste Management Code of Georgia is obliging municipalities to develop Iuri Lartsuliani, Tsageri waste management plans in 2017, covering the period by 2018-2022. There- "Until now we have been fore, in the framework of "Kutaisi Solid Waste Integrated Integrated Manage- cleaning up with municipal ment Project", experts of the project have conducted 8 training sessions during sta. Implementation of this the 10 months period from November 2016 until September 2017. In addition, plan will raise awareness of more than 25 consultation visits to the waste management plan have been citizens in the municipality and conducted in individual municipalities. After the last training session the Samtredia will be one of the cleanest cities in the municipalities." project experts provided continuous support to the municipalities for nalizing the plans. Lika Darjania, Samtredia Page 2 Integrated Solid Waste Management Kutaisi - Project Newsletter # 3 - October 2018 The new regional landll - who is doing what? Construction and operation Solid Waste Management Company of Georgia / Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development The solid waste management company of Georgia is the beneciary. • Beneficiary of the project The company has since 2013 in property and operation 53 former • Contracting consulting companies municipal landlls in Georgia. The mandate for the future is, to • Contracting construction companies construct and operate up to 9 regional landlls and to close down all • Supervision of construction works former municipal landlls. The landll for Imereti and Racha • Final approval and reception of Lechkhumi/Kvemo Svaneti is the FIRST regional landll that will be construction constructed. • Owner and operator of the new landfill • Design of the sanitary landfill • Environmental Impact Assessment The consulting company ERM (Environmental Resources Management) study (EIA) delivers consulting services for planning, tendering and supervising • Prepare tender dossiers for construc- tion works and equipment • Supervise construction works • Support and improve organisation and management • Support and improve financial man- agement and technical competences • Strengthen PR, communication and public awareness activities. Project implemented by consortium Project nanced by EU NIF, KfW and Government of Georgia leaders PEM Consult and ERM Builder and Operator of landll "This document has been produced with the nancial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reect the ocial opinion of the European Union." Page 4.