SWECO wins environmental contract in Tajikistan

SWECO VIAK has been selected to develop a waste management plan for the city of Dushanbe in Tajikistan. The client is Dushanbe City Council and the contract is valued at over EUR 440,000.

The objective of the assignment is to modernise and upgrade waste management for the city’s 590,000 residents, a step that will result in major environmental gains in the waste management process.

In the first stage, SWECO VIAK will carry out an in-depth analysis of the current waste management structure in Dushanbe by studying the entire chain from waste collection to final treatment. A future waste management plan will then be proposed.

”Our study will present a technical solution, a new organisational model and a financial analysis that provides long-term cost coverage. We will be involved from the start in creating the basis of a modern waste management system for Dushanbe,” says Anders Rydergren, Assignment Manager at SWECO VIAK.

Dushanbe is the capital city of Tajikistan. The country borders on several other nations, including Afghanistan and China. The project will be funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD, and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2007.