Construction waste accounts for more than 80 percent of all waste generated in Malta, Environment, Climate Change and Planning Minister Aaron Farrugia said on Saturday, launching the government’s Construction and Demolition Waste Strategy 2021-2030.
Unflagging construction boom
The unprecedented increase of construction waste makes the adoption of a strategy to manage this waste a matter of great urgency, as it concerns both the public and the private sector. In the first place, 2013 saw a boom in the construction industry, which is continuing to the present day.
The government itself is contributing to the waste increase through major infrastructural projects, including road works. Also, the vision for a metro and a tunnel between Malta and Gozo means that Malta has to cope with construction waste that will be further generated, the Minister explained.
