Nowadays current status of this field of environmental management is largely determined by the recent history of waste management and prevailing conditions in the country. During the Soviet period huge multisectoral industrial machine was operating in Georgia. Recent transitional processes resulted the almost complete collapse of country s economy.
Most industrial enterprises are in a stand-still or operating in the very limited regime.
Centralized control of industrial sectors were based on so called high effectively approaches, which basically meant unreasonably high rates of production. High effectively has never meant the integrated consideration of environmental, social and economic issues. Separate agencies were responsible for the management of generated industrial waste within the sector and the decision-making has also been exercised within the competence of the respective agency. Naturally this has resulted in a wide-spread practice of disposing the industrial waste on the territories of industrial enterprises. Frequently the industrial waste was disposed of on communal waste landfills sites without any reference to its toxicity and environmental impact.