Tashkent hosted an international workshop on integrated management of household waste.

Tashkent hosted an international workshop on integrated management of household waste.

The event, organized by the State Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection jointly with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, was attended by representatives of international organizations, foreign companies in the sphere of waste management, national and foreign experts in this field.

At the workshop, special attention was paid to discussion of issues of waste containers production, processing bio waste, construction and reclamation of landfills, selection and use of equipment for pressing solid waste at landfills.

Views were exchanged on improving the quality of sanitation services, introduction of effective mechanisms for collection and removal of household waste from territories within the framework of reforming waste management system.