Tashkent, April 18 -- A presidential resolution approved the Strategy of Municipal Solid Waste Management for the period 2019-2028.

The strategy provides for the implementation of following main tasks:

- development of sanitation infrastructure, aimed at ensuring full coverage of the population with services for the collection and removal of solid household waste;

- creation of an effective and modern system for processing solid household waste;

- reducing the volume of municipal solid waste;

- tariff optimization in the field of sanitation;

- using facilities of solid waste in the form of alternative energy sources.

According to the decree, the "polluter pays" principle will be introduced for the first time, providing compensation...