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State of the Environment in Tbilisi 2000
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Waste disposal

Data sources: National Environmental Action Plan for Georgia, 1999;  Waste mangement Master Plan for Tbilisi, 1998; Georgian Ministry of Environment, 1999.

The amount of wastes generated in Tbilisi and its suburbs is increasing. There is no system of account of city's wastes.

According to expert assessment, the quality of wastes is changing; the fraction consisting from polymeric materials is increasing (mainly at the expense of the imported products and those of local manufacturing). The components of the wastes studied in 1996 is given in the table:


Waste component

Percent by weight

Glass

2.7

Paper

33.9

Mixed plastics

2.1

Leather

-

Wood wastes

2.9

Metals

2.4

Textiles

4.8

Organic (nutrition) wastes

28.2

Bones

1.0

Other

-

In the nearest future together with adoption of waste legislation the slow-down/termination of these negative trends is expected.


 What is the general situation with the waste disposal

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 What is being done to fix the problems

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