Recommendations for local governments about waste management

RECOMMENDATIONS

 

  • Increasing the cooperation between local authorities, local stakeholders, civil society, private businesses and community for local issues, particularly on issues related to waste management.
  • Increasing the community awareness about the Waste Management and mainly giving priority to differential separation at source and recycling. Defining the priorities and advantages that they financially bring as well as environmentally through awareness campaigns, training sessions, public forums, road show etc.
  •  Providing a full information from specialists of the field for a better waste management, treatment and reducing them in manner to become a preliminary assessment for the efficiency of using the differential separation and 3R (recycle, reduce and re-composition). Also creating facilities especially for the private business to launch these practices.
  • Making available to the public containers for differential separation of waste metal, glass, paper, plastic and defining a collection point from the Himara Municipality for each of these materials, minimizing the overflowing surfaces with waste and utilizing the waste that could be subject for 3R process.
  • Support and encouragement of the private businesses which are partially using the practice of differential waste and the decrease of the cleaning task from the Himara Municipality for these businesses by giving a positive model and by including as much businesses in this initiative.
  • Implementation of different projects, without high costs but that surpass theoretical framework and that serve as a positive example for all the community.
  • Composition of the recommendations for the Local and Central Authority Units, which will serve for the change and the preparation of legal acts for the waste management in local level so the reality will be reflected in the field.
  • Organization of round tables/workshops about the waste management, in collaboration with NGOs, the line Ministries for the citizens, stakeholders, local authority, etc.