Existing glass, plastics and waste paper recycling capacities are at low level, Kazakh Minister
At today’s Government meeting Kazakh Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Yerlan Nysanbayev said that the country’s existing glass, plastics and waste paper recycling capacities are at a low level, Kazinform News Agency reports.
Some 4.1 million tons of household waste was collected countrywide, of which 1 million tons or 24% was sorted and recycled in 2023. The rest was buried in landfills. In 2022, 25% out of 4.3 million tons of waste was recycled.
He added almost 80% of the country’s population living mainly in the cities and large rural settlements are provided with centralized waste disposal services.
Space monitoring detected 5,533 unauthorized landfill sites in 39 large rural settlements last year which indicates a significant excess of actual waste volume over discounted level. The morphological composition of household waste consists of 70% of useful fractions, including 16% or 656,000 tons of plastics, 11% or 451,000 tons of waste paper, 9% or 396,000 of glass, and 37% of organic waste, the Minister resumed.