Waste disposal

Tbilisi landfills

Factually existing illegal landfills are not registered, which originated in the city and city's suburbs. Some examples are: the territory adjacent to Lisi lake; Lochini, Varketili-2 settlements; from Nutsubidze-2 to Vashlidjvari settlements; Chichinadze streets territories; territories of Samgori channel, Elia (next to Repair point), Mziuri childtown, Amiredjibi street (settlement of subway construction service), Avtchala ravine (next to the glass factory), Tsaishi street (next to Kukia St.) and many others.

From "officially" existing four landfills:

Gldani  landfill has been in operation since 1973, allocated territory, 26 hectares; it holds approximately 3 ha, the fence is damaged. Polygon is overfilled at present, it endangers the adjacent agricultural lands; the depth of the wastes is 8 m, height 20 m, is active (in 1972-92 years there are approximately 17 250 000 m3 of wastes disposed);

Lilo  landfill has been in operation since 1989, initially 2 hectares have been allocated, it occupies 5 hectares, its fence is damaged, water drainage system is not adjusted, industrial wastes are dumped on bigger area over several dozens of hectares, the depth of waste disposal is 7 m, the height is 14 m (in 1989-95 years about 2 700 000 m3 of wastes have been disposed), is active;

Iaghludji  landfill is located on 254 km of Novorossijsk-Baku-Erevan highway, Marneuli region. Under operation since 1985, 3 ha of land space have been allocated (by the decree of the Cabinet of Minister of 1985), at  present it occupies more than 5 hectares. From the beginning the infiltration collector at the ravine has remained unconstructed, the space rent for the purposes of animal farming is located near polygon. In 1985-95 about 4 000 000 m3 of wastes have been disposed, they are 8 m in depth and 8 m in height.

Mukhatgverdi  landfill has been under operation since 1989, it has been allocated in 1985 1 ha area at the former carrier of inert materials, is not fenced. In 1989-95 about 2 700 000 kbm of wastes have been disposed, the depth is 6 m, is active.

Apart from landfills there exist couple of facilities that aimed to contribute to the waste management activities in the city:

Gldani  Composting  Facility with a capacity of 300 000 m3, has not worked from the beginning because of poor quality of composting;

Garbage Incineration Facility (in Ponitchala, near to Tbilisi), has been constructed in 1968, recycling capacity of 200 000 m3, is not under operation;

Neither of those landfills meets even minimum requirements for health and environmental protection. All of them are overfilled. Their legal status is uncertain. In fact it's almost impossible to understand the content and designation of normative documentation of Tbilisi municipality connected with waste management.

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