The Municipality cannot announce a tender for the construction of a plant for burning or processing solid waste in Chisinau as long as the litigation with the Italian company that pledged to build it still goes on. Deputy Mayor Vlad Cotet told Info-Prim Neo that the project would have killed two birds with one stone. The plant was supposed to be built near the wastewater treatment station. Three lines of the plant would process solid waste and the fourth would process the mud from the water treatment station, which emits bad odors in summer. “We have our hands tied until the court ruling. We are going either towards the technology of sorting or of incinerating. We were interested in processing the mud as well, which smells bad, and this way we would have finally and fully solved all of the city’s waste problems”, said the Deputy Mayor. Vlad Cotet said that the Italian company that didn’t respect its contractual obligations blamed the Chisinau Municipal Council for the delayed approval of the construction. The construction’s planned duration was 30 months and the cost was estimated at €190 million