Moldovan PM demands urgent change of law on waste, working out of roadmap on waste management

Chisinau, 6 March /MOLDPRES/ - The actions due to be undertaken as to the management of solid waste were discussed at a today’s meeting summoned by Prime Minister Pavel Filip. The PM stressed that this problem was one of the most pressing and people were expecting solutions to overcome it, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

„We have everybody gone through the electoral campaign. We have had no meeting with people where this issue was not tackled. We have unauthorized waste landfills in each village; people complain that waste is thrown. But we just do not have to go villages; it is enough for us to move on the country’s roads and see waste landfills on their edges,” Pavel Filip said.    

The prime minister noted that not the lack of money was the biggest constraint in solving this problem, but the fact that Moldova does not have a national programme on the solid waste management.  

„I am absolutely sure that if, from the very beginning, from the independence of this state, there was a national programme on the management of solid waste, we would not have spoken about this problem, just as in many other countries,” Pavel Filip also said.   

The PM demanded that amendments are urgently proposed to the law on waste. At the same time, decision-makers are to work out a roadmap on the solid waste management, which will contain all stages for the final settlement of this problem.