Waste Management

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Waste Management

• Reinis Kalnietis

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• Today, a very acute problem has become a wide
  variety of wastes - both municipal waste and
  chemical and hazardous waste.
• Waste - it is an environmental problem, which
  essentially affect any of us.
• To mitigate this problem, important for each
  country to develop a waste management plan and
  the plan to achieve in life.

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Waste management in Latvia

• In recent years, Latvia has also drawn attention
  to the minimization, recycling, waste disposal,
  or begun to develop a systematic and sustainable
  waste management structure.
• Properly organized management system should
  provide information on key waste producers, waste
  and modified time - weekly, annual, five-year
  cycle

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• Latvian territory currently operates 252
  landfills, 251 is closed. Of the 1998th and 2000.
  recultivated 55 landfills, the total area of
  them are 67.8 ha.
• All dumps total area is 853.5 ha. Most of the
  landfills (77) are less than 2 ha. The largest
  rubbish dump is a dump of Riga "Getlini" - 35 ha.

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• Getlinu site in recent years is a very improved
  waste management, there is arranged to carry the
  waste treatment in line with European standards.
  The most important fact here is a collection of
  methane from the waste deposited and its use in
  energy production.

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Latvian waste management main problems.

• Latvian municipal waste management main problems
  is the large number of waste dumps and their
  environmental impact.
• water pollution
• soil and landscape degradation
• Illegal dumping of waste sites

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• Latvian every year are generated around 600-700
  thousand tonnes of waste fromwhich 30 are
  commercial and institutional waste. Collected is
  only 50 - 60 waste.
• Waste management services are delivered to
  approximately 80 of urban population and only
  20 of rural population. Waste collection and
  disposal of the urban service companies, of which
  95 are local companies.

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Waste sorting

• Separate waste collection system designed to
  gather various types of shared waste.
• To the traditional (common) collection of waste
  is much more difficult for future use. Therefore,
  it is sorted waste.
• In an environment where resource consumption is
  growing worldwide and amount is decreasing,
  becoming more profitable to produce new products
  out of recycled materials.

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• Latvian sorted waste collection system is still
  in place and in most cases it is available in
  large towns.
• We sorting waste by placing them in different
  colored containers.
• Green meant clean and, preferably, unfractured
  glass bottles and jars
• Yellow assignable to pure PET bottles, as well as
  clean and dry cardboard and paper packaging,
  newspapers, magazines, books and writing.
• While the dark containers for other unsorted
  household waste.

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• Thank you for your attention!