waste (MSW) management in Kazakhstan with focus on the two major cities, Astana and
Almaty, the current and former capital of the country. Untill recently, ninety-seven percent of
the MSW was disposed in open dumps and substandard authorized landfills. Ninety-three
percent of the 4530 municipal waste disposal landfills were not permitted, while from the 307
authorized waste disposal facilities, only the one in the city of Astana was designed in …