Tbilisi. To examine current situation in the waste management sector in Georgia, the "Center for Regional Development and Social Assistance" has held the first workshop. Participants of the meeting held as part of the pilot project "Let's Transform Useless into Useful - Reduce, Process, Use" have discussed existing initiatives, legislation and challenges in the waste management sector. The project aims to introduce a waste separation model by means of bins of different colors. Processed household and solid waste will be placed in bins. Waste will be transported and processed, while it will be possible to manufacture organic fertilizers by means of composting organic waste.
For the first time, as part of the pilot project the Center has installed colored bins in the IDP compact settlement in Saguramo, and fertilizers produced from processing the organic waste will be used for agricultural activities of IDP population and increasing their source of income.
The EU-funded project is implemented by CSO "Center for Regional Development and Social Assistance" as part of the small grants program of the UN Development Program and the Global Environmental Fund.