Chief of the Republican Center for Organization of Sanitary Cleaning under the Ministry of Ecology, Sharif Khasanov, met with the Ambassador of Sweden to Uzbekistan, Tomas Danestad, and Senior Advisor to the Swedish Association for Waste Management and Recycling, Vern Vikvist.
At the meeting, the parties discussed waste management and accelerating the introduction of Swedish best practices in Uzbekistan.
They also exchanged views on study and analysis of the waste situation in the country, including short-term and long-term needs in this area.
The Swedish waste management model is mainly focused on recycling waste as well as producing energy from it.
They also focused on the development, sustainable design and implementation of innovative waste-to-energy technologies.