Six villages from central Moldova district create modern system of waste management

Chisinau, 19 October /MOLDPRES/ - Six partner settlements from the central Hancesti district today signed an agreement on inter-community cooperation, which provides for joint management of waste evacuation services.

The agreement’s implementation is possible due to the government of Switzerland, which provided grants for the sustainable development of settlements, with the involvement of people born there who left abroad, within the Migration and Local Development project, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with the mayoralty of the Carpineni village and a public association.  

The initiative to create such a system belongs to the Carpineni mayoralty, which reorganized the enterprise Carpineni Servicii (Carpineni Services) into an inter-community service of stocking and evacuation of waste. To this end, competent authorities have bought a special vehicle, as well as big dustbins for households from six neighbour settlements. Thus, those over 22,000 residents from the villages Carpineni, Mingir, Negrea, Voinescu, Sofia and Balceana will get rid of  unauthorized dumps which pollute the environment.   

„Forty unauthorized dumps have been recorded on the territory of these settlements, which pollute the surface phreatic waters and the waters of the Lapusna river basin. “As a result of this project, we have reorganized by enterprise Carpineni Servicii into an inter-community service of evacuation and stocking of waste. At the same time, the aforementioned settlements will be endowed with dustbins for the collection of waste, with special vehicle with mechanism of hydraulic pressing and automatic loading. We have greater plans, which see construction of an authorized dump, enjoying already the support of partners from Ukraine within the neighbouring programme backed by the European Union,” the Carpineni village mayor, Ion Carpineanu, told MOLDPRES.     

This is one of the few projects from Moldova, within which more settlements identify a common problem and are set to solve them with the involvement of native inhabitants. “This is really an original programme and necessary for people; it is about an innovative model, through which more settlements identify a common problem and join efforts to settle it, including with the support of migrants,” a representative of the Migration and Local Development project, Oxana Maciuca, said.  

The project’s overall budget is of about 298,200 dollars. Three thousand dollars of this sum is migrants’ contribution, collected by crowd-funding. More than 33,000 dollars represents the contribution of the local public administration, the Hancesti district council invested 20,600 dollars. The biggest share of the spending belongs to the grant of the Swiss government, worth 50,000 dollars and the contribution of the European Union, amounting to 191,000 dollars.   

The Migration and Local Development project is part of a multiannual intervention by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in the field of migration and development and is implemented on the period 2015-2018, in partnership with the Moldovan government, local public authorities, local NGOs, private sector, migrants born in the target settlements. The project’s budget for 2018 amounts to about 1.3 million dollars. In all, 40 villages and towns from all over Moldova are part of the project (25 in the first stage and 15 in the second one).

(Reporter L. Grubii, editor A. Raileanu)