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Study on application of public-private partnership in POPs waste management and disposal

(May 23, 2008)

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This study is one of three subcontracts under the project preparation grant (PPG) for the GEF full-sized project ¡°Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of Obsolete POPs Pesticides and Other POPs Wastes¡±. The objective of this study is to explore the potential for the private sector to participate in the delivery of infrastructure and services needed for sound management and disposal of POPs wastes in a most cost-effective way. The results of the study will be used to support the development and implementation of the GEF full-sized project.

The study will look into the whole process from identification, collection, storage, transportation, and disposal of high-strengthen POPs wastes, including obsolete POPs pesticides and dioxin rich fly ashes from medical waste incineration process.

The study will not include contaminated soils and fly ashes from other incineration process, but will make a preliminary assessment of the applicability of the recommendations to their management and disposal. This study will not make any on-site investigation of the amount and distribution of the targeted wastes. It will make analysis based on the data provided by a subcontract titled ¡°Investigation on POPs Wastes¡±.

The study will interact with the subcontractor for management and policy study under the PPG by making supplementary rather than conflicting recommendations for the use of policy instruments, as PPP study will involve many policy aspects too.

Trusted by the Stockholm Convention Implementation Office of Ministry of Environmental Protection, EnviSolve will establish a special study team for implementing this subcontract.

The study team will first collect data and review literature regarding the successful international and domestic experience in application of PPPs in sectors including transportation, water and solid wastes. Key elements of PPPs in these sectors such as pricing regulations and tariff policy design, policies for promoting PPP, and contractual arrangements will be reviewed and analyzed.

Based on the study results from the other two subcontracts for inventory study and policy and management regime study, the study team will carry out comparative study to analyze the applicability of the successful experience in assisting the government to realize environmentally sound management and disposal of obsolete POPs pesticides and other POPs wastes.

At the end, the project team will come up with conclusions and recommendations on how to structure and implement PPPs for this GEF full-sized project. Figure 1 provides an outline of the study methodology.

The study is expected to be completed by the end of September.
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