CAPITAL CLEAN-UP: FOREIGN GARBAGE-REMOVAL OPERATOR STARTS WORK IN YEREVAN

News | 02.12.14 | 10:37

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A Lebanese company that had won a tender announced by the Yerevan
municipality began to operate in the Armenian capital this month.

Mayor Taron Margaryan inspected the garbage-removal equipment
of Sanitek s.a.r.l. displaced in the city’s Shahumyan Square on
December 1.

Two companies had been chosen to provide services in Yerevan in a
2012 tender in which companies specializing in garbage removal and
sanitary cleaning from eight countries were participating.

The Lebanese company will be responsible for providing the services
in Yerevan’s western administrative districts (Achapnyak, Davtashen,
Kentron, Malatia-Sebastia, Shengavit), while a consortium of the
Armenian-Swedish companies, Ecogroup and LL Milioconsult, will provide
the services in the eastern sector (the administrative districts of
Arabkir, Avan, Erebuni, Kanaker-Zeytun, Nor-Nork and Nubarashen).

“Organization of garbage removal is a serious problem for every
large city and Yerevan is no exception,” Mayor Taron Margaryan said,
as quoted by the Municipality press service. He added that the
two companies entrusted with the service in Yerevan have a 10-year
contract.

“The process has started only in the administrative district of
Kentron. After the transitional stage is over and the company’s work
takes its normal course, the process will be organized also in the
rest of the administrative districts. Thus, we can say that already
today services corresponding to international standards gradually
start to be provided in Yerevan,” Margaryan said.

According to a Sanitek s.a.r.l. representative, the company has so
far invested about 10 million Euros (about $12.5 million) in the
enterprise in Armenia. It currently has 150 workers, but plans to
increase the staff to 300, with the minimal wages set at $500.

To a reporter’s question about whether citizens will have to pay
more for the higher quality of the service, Mayor Margaryan said:
“In 2015, the price for garbage collection will not change, as we
plan to offer the quality service at the same price due to raising
the efficiency of work and by way of consolidation of organizations.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress