SC Waste Management Limited

SC Waste Management Limited to design and deliver local authority training in Albania

08/09/2010

After successful co-operation with the Albanian consulting firm Co-Plan in the municipality of Fier in west central Albania SC Waste Management Limited have again been engaged by Co-Plan, Tirana, Albania to design and deliver 5 short training courses to local authority waste services managers from the municipalities of Lezhe & Shkoder, Albania

The work involves the development of 5 short training packages for local authority waste managers and covers aspects of waste services including:
  1. Organizing the waste collection service (Institutional, financial, technical, environment and social aspects)
  2. Estimation of full cost and tariff establishment based on cost recovery concept, (at least for collection and transport) probably a simple excel sheet calculation (several sheets linked with each other)
  3. Developing tendering documents and procedures for procurement, (in most of the municipalities and communes the process is tendering out)
  4. Introduction environmental initiatives for achieving waste minimization
  5. Organizing inter Local Government Units cooperation (most important one - institutional and financial schemes)
The training materials have been designed over 5 days in Scotland and the actual training will take place at the two municipalities in second and third week of October.

Lezhe and Shkoder are examples of the polarised waste management conditions in Albania whereby Lezhe has adopted a street container recycling system and is trying to improve its image to attract more tourists to the city while its landfill site is a real environmental disaster. (See images below)

City of Lezhe City of Lezhe Landfill Outside Lezhe Landfill Outside Lezhe

Shkoder on the other hand has a no policy of recycling and has a huge landfill site on the floodplain of the Mati River. (See images below)

Shkoder Landfill Site Shkoder Landfill Site

The project has been funded by the Dutch embassy and is part of an overall project framework to increase capacities in local government across Albania. For more information on the project click here.