ACTIVITY

Cooperation with the Russian Federation is suspended.

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Projects overall objective: decreasing environmental risks in the cross-border region by way of improving solid waste management systems, ensuring effective waste separation and constructing at municipal institutions modern waste collection points with sealed containers.

Specific objectives: construction of waste collection points; education and popularisation of the need for the separation of solid waste; creation of the conditions for cost-effective recycling of waste materials.

Final beneficiaries: the entire population of participating regions, regardless of age and sex, whose living environment the project positively affects (Kohtla-Jarve about 35000 people, Slantsy about 30000 people, Pskov town about 200000 people).

Direct target group: specialists on environmental issues of local administrations, employees of municipal institutions, specialists from waste management companies.

Indirect target group: teachers, children, youth, elderly people, medical workers, whose attention will be drawn to the need of sorting waste and involving them into this process at their institutions, and who subsequently will continue this habit at their homes.