A piece of equipment for granulating plaster into waste was put into operation at a waste sorting and recycling plant in Peresecina village of Orhei district on November 14. The enterprise’s monthly waste sorting and recycling capacity is of about 12,000 tonnes, while the capacity to process plaster is of approximately 180 tonnes, IPN reports.

According to Minister of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment Nicolae Ciubuc, the granulated plaster is used as raw material in different industries. “It is important to take recycling into account as this has a positive impact on the environment and the costs for producing raw material are thus minimized. Both ecological and economic advantages are created,” he stated, noting 36 national operators were authorized to recycle waste, but these cannot cope with the total volume of waste

Statistics show about 1 million tonnes of waste are annually produced in Moldova. More than half of these can be recycled.