Over 300 waste storage platforms in the capital city will be modernized and another ten underground platforms will be built by this yearend in areas where large amounts of garbage are gathered within a project launched on the initiative of the Public Amenities Division and implemented with support from the National Ecological Fund.

Contacted by IPN, head of the Division’s Territorial Development and Cleanup Section Vasile Efros said it is a project to the value of 25 million lei that was launched in 2016. This was to be completed last year, but the allocation of money from the National Ecological Fund lasted and they managed to modernize only about 200 platforms so far. Another 300 platforms are to be modernized by the end of this year and ten more underground platforms will be put up.

The functionary proposed working out a feasibility study of the necessity of sorting household waste. He also suggested erecting a vegetable waste composting station and developing the UNDP project “Moldova Sustainable Green Cities” that envisions the construction of a wooden briquettes station. In the future, the Public Amenities Division also plans to build a construction waste recycling plant.

Vasile Efros noted that the Division aims to extend the waste collection service to all the suburbs of the capital city. The regulations on the organization of the cleanup service should be approved by the Chisinau Municipal Council as soon as possible. The Council should also delimit and approve the cleanup and territorial development areas in the yards of apartment buildings and to transfer these to dwellers associations so that these maintain them.