Description
"ZAAO" Ltd. was founded in 1998 and has 15 years of providing waste collection, transportation, sorting and disposal services in North Vidzeme waste management region in Latvia. Within the project the company will establish new technological solutions to ensure more energy-efficient preparation of unsorted municipal waste for storage and separately collected sorted waste regeneration. The Company's goal is to prepare for re-use and recycle at least 50% of households waste and other similar waste streams of paper, metal, plastic and glass waste, as well as recovering 60% of packaging. The Company wants to provide 23 “ECO fields” and 441 “ECO points” in Latvia for separated waste collection by 2020. The Norway grant will support the company's goal and objectives that conform with National Waste Management Plan 2013-2020.
Summary of project results
Within the Norway grant programme one of the Latvia’s municipal waste management company were granted with 170 000 EUR. In cooperation with local governments, ZAAO has developed the North Vidzeme Waste Management Plan 2014 - 2020 for setting future trends and waste management needs of the North Vidzeme region, including the major investments for efficient and sustainable waste management in the region. The Project implementation ensured reduction of municipal solid waste by recovery of reusable resources at least 650 t/a as technological equipment units - sorted waste balling press and waste bag opener, - and upgrading workstations of manual sorting lines for secondary raw materials were purchased In addition new work places were created that allows to company much more efficient sorting of reusable material fractions such as PET bottles, plastics, cardboard and other.
Summary of bilateral results