Fencing is being installed around the landfill in Bishkek

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A fence is being installed around a landfill in Bishkek. This was reported on March 30 in the press service of the capital’s mayor’s office.

According to the municipality, repair and construction work is 90% complete. Then the installation of lighting and laying of the roadway will begin, the mayor’s office also plans to install video surveillance cameras.

A fence installed along the perimeter of the landfill. Photo: City Hall of Bishkek

“The installation of a fence on the southern and eastern sides of the landfill has been completed, work continues in the western part. […] To reduce the volume of soil, equipment for the disposal of sewing waste will be used. For this, a hangar will be erected and equipped with the necessary equipment,” the ministry said.

Work is also underway to reduce the smoke from fires that form in the active part of the landfill. Work continues on the reclamation of the old landfill and the construction of a new cell for storing waste after sorting.

Before the mayor’s office announced the installation of the fence, local residents from the Altyn Kazyk new building, located near the landfill, reported that the authorities had demolished several houses for the sake of the fence.

The situation around the landfill

Garbage landfill. Photo: Bishkek City Hall

In 2013, the Government of Kyrgyzstan and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development signed a loan agreement to finance the project “Improving Solid Waste Management in Bishkek”.

It involved the construction of a waste processing and sorting plant. The capital was allocated 22 million euros. Half of this money is a loan that the country will repay with interest.

Due to the delay in the implementation of the project to open a new landfill and reclamation of the old one, the authorities will pay more than 14 million soms in fines for unused funds.

Officials have been talking about building a waste sorting and recycling plant for years. But the matter has not moved forward, it is also still unknown where it will be built.

In 2022, a parliamentary commission was created under a loan of 22 million euros allocated by the EBRD to solve the problems of the landfill. Then it became known that “the project has not been implemented to date, and the allocated money is no longer left.” Therefore, the matter was assigned to the Security Council.

On October 10, 2022, residents of residential areas located near the landfill took to the streets. About 70 people gathered to demand to stop burning garbage and move the landfill to a deserted place.

The vice-mayor of Bishkek, Nurlan Oruntaev, came out to meet the protesters and promised that the mayor’s office “will try to stop burning garbage in the landfill.” In addition, according to him, “the construction of a waste sorting plant should be completed within one year.”

On December 15, Bishkek Mayor Emilbek Abdykadyrov said that construction of a waste processing plant would begin in the first quarter of 2023.

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