Moldovan PM considers implementation of Solid Waste Management project

Chisinau, 3 July /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today considered the stages of implementation of the Solid Waste Management project. The participants in the meeting discussed actions undertaken to prepare the platform for the investment planned within the agreement on financing between Moldova and the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the implementation of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) project in Moldova.   

According to the government’s communication and protocol department, the investments programme includes the SWM’s integrated infrastructure, which will be placed in eight Waste Management Regions (WMR): three in the south development region (DR), three in Centru DR and two in North DR. Three feasibility studies (FS) have been finished so far for WMR 1, 5 and 8. The overall costs for the three WMR are estimated at 42 million euros.

The pilot project is to be implemented in the WMR 5, which includes the districts of Nisporeni, Calarasi and Ungheni.

Decision-makers informed the prime minister about the two models of management of public services in the SWM field, Centralized and Semi-Centralized, the advandtages and disadvantages of each of them. They presented the institution’s concept, in form of stock company, which is to ensure the integrated management of waste and identifying the sources of its financing.  

Ion Chicu highlighted the importance of implementing the project in Moldova and instructed the preparation of a roadmap for the actions till the launch of the pilot project.   

The agreement on financing between Moldova and the European Investment Bank on the implementation of the Solid Waste Management project in Moldova was signed on 18 October 2019. Under the document, the general cost for creating the infrastructure of the Solid Waste Management in Moldova is estimated at 200 million euros. EIB will make available to Moldova a credit line of up to 100 million euros, with the first installment worth 25 million euros. Concomitantly, the agreement provides for the co-financing of the SWM investments programme by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.