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03:05et la valeur de la société pour future générations.
03:29Uzbekistan generates roughly 15 million tonnes de haussehold waste a year.
03:34Government figures suggest only around 5-6% is recycled or processed by specialist companies.
03:41Most waste, therefore, remains outside the recycling system.
03:45The country's response combines landfill reform, recycling, and waste to energy.
03:50These approaches address different parts of the waste stream,
03:53and they do not all play the same role in a circular economy.
03:57The first challenge is the most basic, collecting waste safely and controlling what reaches landfill.
04:0450 years of waste went into the ground just over there.
04:08This facility replaced it last year.
04:1124 hectares compacted waste and proper containment.
04:14Up to 2,500 tonnes of waste arrive every single day from across the capital.
04:20But the most interesting part is what happens next.
04:25Organic material buried without oxygen produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
04:32It can escape from landfill or be captured and used as fuel.
04:50Gas capture can reduce emissions and generate electricity, but sealing a landfill does not answer risk.
04:57Massane and polluted liquid, known as leachate, can persist for years and require long-term monitoring.
05:25Alongside efforts to improve landfill management, Uzbekistan is expanding waste to energy incineration.
05:31Government is rolling out a nationwide network of waste-to-energy plants,
05:36with six currently under construction and additional projects planned.
05:41The site will be processing 1,500 tonnes of Samarkand's waste every single day
05:47and sending the electricity straight to the national grid.
06:07That is the government's case.
06:10In the waste hierarchy, however, burning waste for energy is classed as recovery, not recycling.
06:16It can reduce landfill volumes and generate power, but it also produces emissions and ash.
06:22Its environmental performance will depend on what is burned, the pollution controls used,
06:26and how their residues are managed.
06:28Beyond the large projects, private operators have also entered waste collection.
06:43At household level, sorting remains a major obstacle.
06:47In 2024, Zero Waste distributed 10,000 bags for residents to separate recyclable waste.
06:54Only around 1% were returned sorted.
06:56It's not a national measure, but it illustrates the difficulty of changing household habits.
07:21The projects are moving ahead, but the circular economy depends on more than new infrastructure.
07:27Whether household ordering can keep pace remains an open question.
07:33From the UAE to Uzbekistan, this proves that clothing the loop on waste isn't just possible,
07:38it's already happening, whenever people choose to act.
07:42That's all for this episode of Earth Now.
07:45Join us next time as we uncover more about the work underway across the planet to safeguard it.
07:57Let us Morocco.
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07:59itís almost referred to as uniqueness.
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