A seminar on best practices to reduce methane emissions was held in Ashgabat

Date of publication: 26 March 2024 / Views: 262

On March 26, 2024, a seminar was held in the building of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat on the topic “Modern technologies for the disposal of methane-emitting organic waste: OSCE Best Practices”

The event brought together 21 people representing: the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan, the NGO “Tebigi Kuvvat” enterprise, the Nature Conservation Society of Turkmenistan, the State Concern “Turkmengas”, teachers and students of the Turkmen Engineering and Technology University named after Oguzkhan, Turkmen Agricultural University named after S.A. Niyazov, as well as via video link between the Turkmen State University named after Magtymguly and the Turkmen Agricultural Institute in Dashoguz.

The entire seminar was dedicated to the presentation of Russian expert Vladimir Evgenievich Pinaev, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Department of Environmental Safety and Product Quality Management of the Institute of Ecology of the Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University of Russia.

V.E. Pinaev shared Russian experience with colleagues from Turkmenistan in the aspect of environmental, technological recycling and degassing of old organic waste disposal sites.

In the second half of the seminar, the methodology for performing field experiments, as well as the process of converting landfill gas into energy, was discussed in detail.

After each session, the seminar facilitator allocated time for participants to ask questions to the presenter, who gave detailed answers taking into account the practice of the Russian Federation. Thus, questions were raised from the audience related to the effectiveness of environmental legislation regulating the accounting of methane emissions from industrial enterprises, the practice of waste management from water desalination facilities, the practice of recycling mercury-containing and plastic waste, the feasibility, from the point of view of energy and economic prospects, of environmental recycling of perennial waste in landfills and production of biogas from it, etc.

In conclusion, I would like to note the good tradition of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat – organizing this kind of seminars on popular topics of partner organizations, and the topic of today’s seminar was initiated by the Nature Conservation Society of Turkmenistan.