POLICY PAPER SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SECTOR

The Program and the Parliamentary Committee organized a broad interactive session between the public and private sectors, to discuss the results of the study and to enrich the recommendations.9 Pertinently, the results of this dialogue are reflected in the paper. [...] The Solid Waste Management Company of Georgia LLC, under the administration of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure, shoulders the responsibility for the establishment, management, and closure of non-hazardous waste landfills. [...] The lack of enforcement of the existing legislation continues to represent the main problem afflicting the waste management system in Georgia, with unsanctioned cleaning charges for waste pollution in the vast majority of the country's municipalities. [...] This decision was made in light of the establishment of a Skills Agency by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2021, which is expected to increase the supply of qualified personnel in the labor market20. [...] According to the "Local Self-Government Financial and Property Powers Research Report" prepared by the Association of Financiers of Local Self-Governing Units of Georgia in 2020, the reasons behind the low effectiveness of cleaning fee collection were the small amount of the fee and not having a single base of fee payers in the municipalities.