CURE+ Baseline study: City of Tartu, Estonia

In the last decade, an average of 343,793 ton/year of waste was collected from the territories of Tartu and the former Tähtvere. The waste collected from the territory of the former Tähtvere municipality accounted for an average of 17% of the collected waste during this period. The amount of collected waste has remained unchanged since 2014.

The majority of the collected waste (approximately 91%) comes from companies while the rest (9% on average) is collected from households. The biggest share of collected waste was the Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW), accounting for 57% of collected waste and was estimated to be a total of 1 million tons in weight. The majority of CDW was collected from the city of Tartu, which has a relatively well-developed waste management system, with designated sites for depositing CDW as soil fillers.