The first regular meeting of the Business Council in the Waste Management sector was held

The first regular meeting of the Business Council in the sector of Materials and Technologies in the border districts of Blagoevgrad, Haskovo, Kardzhali and Smolyan was held on 31.03.2022 in the town of Smolyan. V / A GREECE-BULGARIA 2014-2020, Subsidy contract № B6.3a.18 / 13.04.2021.

The meeting was attended by 24 representatives of the Waste Management Sector from the border districts of Haskovo, Kardzhali, Blagoevgrad and Smolyan. The topics discussed were the following:

  1. Textile waste:

The members of the Business Council for Waste Management shared that textile waste is one of the most common and work should be done to inform all stakeholders how to collect this type of waste separately. Recommendations for joint meetings between the members of the Textile Business Council and the members of the Waste Management Business Council were also discussed.

The latest integrated software solutions for textile collection management system were discussed, which allows tracking the generated quantities of textiles in the placed containers, including providing information on collected and baled quantity, keeping and tracking the locations of containers, supporting logistics solutions and implementation of efficient routes of textile collection techniques.

  • Separate waste collection:

Regarding the separate collection of glass, paper and plastic waste, a concrete example was given by an expert ecologist from the Smolyan Municipal Administration, namely that citizens approach the process of transporting already separately collected waste with distrust and misunderstanding. In this regard, it was proposed to publish publications on the benefits of separate waste collection, through the provided administrative support of the NGO "RISK", as the main partner in the project.

A decision was made to discuss and coordinate the text of the publications with the members of the business councils, and the title of the Facebook page where they will be published will be discussed.