On 27 March, a roughly $19,914-dollar grant contract for a project to provide waste bins for sorting wastes in the Sisyan community was signed during a ceremony held on the sidelines of the Grant Support for Programs to Protect Human Safety Program at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development of the Republic of Armenia, reports the Department of Public Relations of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, according to NEWS.am.

The grant contract was signed by Japan’s Ambassador to Armenia Jun Yamada and Executive Director of Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development Nune Ghazakhetsyan.

The signing ceremony was held in the presence of Armenia’s First Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Development Vache Terteryan, Governor of Syunik Province Hunan Poghosyan and members of the Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development.

The goal of the program is to provide Sisyan community with 65 waste bins for mixed wastes that will allow to sort wastes as plastic and other wastes effectively. The waste bins will help improve the capacity for waste management and processing in Sisyan, which has a population of 16,000.