Workshop on integrated domestic waste management co-organized by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan

Integrated domestic waste management was the focus of a workshop hosted by the State Committee of Uzbekistan on Ecology and Environmental Protection in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) and with the support of several private companies from 27 to 29 November in Tashkent.

The workshop, which brought together around 50 government officials and representatives from state-owned and private companies, aimed to increase the participants’ knowledge of the different aspects of sustainable domestic waste management as well as familiarize them with the latest technological developments in the field.

The first two days consisted of presentations from and discussions with several leading international experts, including from Russia and Germany. The final day of the workshop was dedicated to business-to-business seminars in order to offer the participants a concrete opportunity to modernize and further develop their capacity in the field of sustainable domestic waste management.

The workshop was organized as part of the project Support in Implementation of Green Economy Policies in Uzbekistan and represented the PCUz’s continued support for the sustainability efforts made by the government. It furthermore served as a follow-up to one of the panels of the Business Forum on Green Technologies, which was held in early June and co-organized by the PCUz.