Financial sustainability assessment of 11 household waste landfills has been developed under the leadership of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development (MEPRD). It provides sound proposals for the most optimal scenarios for the development of the landfill's economic activity, including both current financial performance and projections up to 2035. The Ministry carried out the assessment within the framework of the LIFE programme’s integrated project “Waste to Resources Latvia - Boosting Regional Sustainability and Circularity by Introducing the Waste to Resources Concept” the European Union's Programme for the Environment and Climate Action LIFE 2018-2020.
The territory of Latvia has been currently divided into 10 waste management regions (WMRs). To achieve the targets for separate waste collection, recycling and landfill reduction set out in the National Waste Management Plan 2021-2028, a shift to five WMRs is envisaged. There is a need to assess the financial sustainability of existing landfills to identify the most optimal landfill development scenarios.
Rudīte Vesere, Director of the Department of Environmental Protection of the MEPRD: “Implementation of the National Waste Management Plan 2021-2028 provides for major changes to the waste management system affecting everyone, from the waste producer to the waste manager. It is important that the reform of the waste management regions is based on a sound analysis of financial indicators, so that the development of household waste landfills can be planned in an economically sound way."
MEPRD is also responsible for the development of a study funded by the Latvian Environmental Protection Fund on the need to revise the minimum requirements for the coverage of sorted waste collection sites depending on the population. Goal of the study is to define criteria for determining the availability of a service for separately collected waste, in particular for biowaste, textile waste and household hazardous waste.
On 9 December, 10:00-14:00, an online information seminar on the results of the assessment and the study will take place, inviting participants from municipalities, public administrations, waste management professional associations, operators of landfills and sorting centres, waste management operators, waste packaging, environmentally hazardous goods waste managers, etc.
More information on how to apply: here
Financial sustainability assessment of eleven landfills - Part 1 and Part 2.
Workshop presentations:
Assessment of the financial sustainability of eleven landfills
Study on the need to revise the minimum requirements for the coverage of sorted waste collection sites according to population.
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