The overall objective of the project is to improve the waste management infrastructure and implicitly the environmental quality in Bistrița-Năsăud County by extending the separate collection within SMID Bistrița-Năsăud, in order to meet the objectives related to increasing the share of recycled / recovered waste in the total amount of waste collected and reducing the amount of waste landfilled. The project is relevant for LIOP Specific Objective 3.1 because the acquisition of 188,329 separate collection containers for paper/cardboard, plastic/metal and glass waste represents an investment in the waste sector, thus contributing to the national effort to comply with the provisions of the European acquis and to comply with the commitments undertaken for the environmental sector. The project contributes the result indicators for SO 3.1 with the following values: - 2S26 ‘Recycling rate of household and similar waste’ – 50% in 2024 compared to 10% in 2022. The indicator was calculated by reporting the amount of paper/cardboard, plastic, metal, glass waste recycled in the sanitation system to the recyclable amounts generated from municipal waste (household waste, similar waste, waste from markets) entering the sanitation system (without the amounts of recyclable waste collected by other operators and the amounts that will be found in the SGR system). This indicator is partly influenced by the implementation of the project (the direct influence of the project is only on the recycling of glass waste, which after collection is sent directly to recyclers, and does not enter existing treatment facilities) but also indirectly by ensuring a higher percentage of separate collection of recyclable waste, which will be treated in existing facilities. The impact on the recycling of glass waste is direct because, from a technical point of view, at the time of collection of the contents of the bins, they are checked in terms of content (legal obligation, according to Article 16(2) of GEO No 92/2021), eliminating the possibility of their contamination, they are easier to handle by the machine owners, thus avoiding the breakage of the collected bottles, no longer requiring an intermediate stage of sorting them, practically at the time of sending the glass quantities to the recyclers, the level of drop at the reception is greatly reduced, thus increasing the recycling rate. The indirect influence on the recycling rate is given by the increase in the separate collection rate of paper/cardboard and plastic/metal waste, which will inevitably lead to an increase in the amount of recycled waste leaving the sorting station, but this increase can still be related to the current performance of the sorting station, and the increase in this performance indicator is not ensured by the investments under this project.