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Waste management
 AMOUNT OF GENERATED
WASTE
One third of
Latvia
's
population lives in Riga
;
at the same time, Riga
accounts for about 40% of the total household waste produced in
Latvia
.
In 2000, the following amount of waste had been produced in
Riga
(see Table
5).
Data
on the amount of waste are approximate, because there are more than
44 thousand landowners in
Riga,
and the current waste accounting system does not provide for
comprehensive information about the producers of household waste:
private landowners, co-operatives, house management units,
commercial enterprises, central government and local government
authorities, plants and health care institutions. Inaccuracy is also
caused by the fact that household waste for disposal at waste
disposal sites is accepted according to cubic, not weight
measures.
The amount of solid household waste per capita in Riga
in 1995 was 1.1m3, but in 1999 it reached 1.7 m3
per capita (see Figure 10
).
Over the last 3 years, the amount
of waste produced per capita constituted approximately 1.6
m3, and there is no tendency for
increase.
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