Waste disposal

   What is being done to solve the problems

The monitoring of state is in fact not done, not counting separate occasional investigations done at the expense of the funds of international organizations. The impact monitoring is not satisfactorily organized either.

In compliance with the methodology used before 1998, wastes were divided into three categories:

-         industrial wastes, paper waste, second-hand polymeric materials;

-         ash and cinder waste;

-         sludge and tailings after mineral processing.

The State Committee for Statistics divided toxic wastes into 4 categories by toxicity classes. In1998 the division into 6 categories was adopted according to the waste toxicity class and the enterprise type. So, it is impossible to use the formerly accumulated information on wastes for analysis purposes.

            The absence of an effective monitoring system determines also the lack of reliable prognosis of the development of the ecological situation.

Historically, the population has little trust in the information given by the state bodies. The participation of the public in the solution of environmental problems is insufficient both for reasons stated below and because of the unclear regulation of the forms of this participation by the Law On Environmental Protection.

            The migration of population from smaller places to the capital and the growing unemployment led to the appearance of ecological problems. This meant the increase of the scope of work for waste disposal services which even before had barely coped with their duties.

            The regular electric power cuts, the reduction in gas supplies and the rise in prices of fuels imported from outside the republic led to a wide use of low-calorie, high-ash fuel for domestic purposes, what increased the amount of waste. 

            The existing environmental legislation in the part of waste disposal remains on the legal basis of 1990, though in recent years actions have been taken to its improvement.

            The effective legislation ensures a legal basis for the prohibition and restriction of production, using imported products and materials containing dangerous chemical substances in cases when wastes created by their use cannot be utilized by an ecologically rational method.  

            The strategy and tactics of ecological activities is specified in detail in many documents.

                         In 1997 the Ministry of Environmental Protection developed the Conception of Ecological Safety of the Kyrgyz Republic which was adopted by the Security Council. The Conception laid down the basic activity principles and specified the priority directions of ensuring ecological safety subdivided into short-term, medium-term and long-term measures.

            In 1999 the government adopted the State Plan of Actions on Environmental Hygiene of the Kyrgyz Republic dealing with the same questions in more detail. A local plan on environmental hygiene of the city of Bishkek was adopted.

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