The overall objective of this project similar to any investment project in waste management is to improve the living conditions of the population and environmental management, in the local and regional context. The intervention logic is determined by the need for Member States to comply with EU environmental standards as laid down in national and European legislation on waste. Improving the living conditions of the population and environmental management can only be achieved by improving waste management, by increasing the efficiency of the integrated waste management system (SMID). Increasing the efficiency of existing SMID is proposed to be achieved by supplementing the system with infrastructure dedicated to collecting and managing municipal waste in both urban and rural areas. The importance of these infrastructures lies in the creation of dedicated areas and an institutional framework for collecting municipal waste distinct from the fractions/types of waste that so far have been the subject of occasional campaigns, in accordance with the provisions of the contracts for delegation by concession of the sanitation service, in force for the collection areas existing at Bihor county level. Through the infrastructures that will be realised through the proposed project – waste collection centres through voluntary contribution, municipal waste will be collected separately on 12 fractions. Such collection was not previously carried out either in urban areas, where the amount of waste collected is significant, nor in rural areas where the collection of waste was deficient due to differences in fractions collected from the urban environment, the number of contracts concluded with individuals and the mentality of the population. The proposed project, through the establishment of 16 waste collection centres through voluntary contribution, made available to citizens free of charge, will directly contribute to the objectives of the operational programme and to the EU directives, specific to the field of waste, and will ensure the increase of the efficiency of the recovery/recycling of waste, as well as the reduction of environmental pollution, generated by the illegal abandonment of waste. The implementation of the project will lead to the optimisation of the waste collection system as a result of the construction of the waste collection points, and implicitly to the increase of the recycling of the waste. Increasing the amount of recycling waste by default and the recycling rate has a significant social impact by: minimising and streamlining the use of primary resources, especially non-renewable resources – treatment and disposal of waste as close as possible to the source of generation – minimising the negative effects of waste production and management on the population – recovery of waste in order to recycle non-renewable raw material – energy recovery (through incineration) for waste with pu
