50 contractors eye Skopje wastewater treatment plant project
Around 50 companies have expressed interest in designing and building a wastewater treatment plant in the North Macedonian capital Skopje, a EUR 136 million project aimed at addressing the pollution and poor quality of water in the River Vardar. The project will be financed through EIB and EBRD loans The wastewater treatment plant project is to be […]
Strategic waste sorting project under way in Croatia
A total of 284 cities and municipalities in Croatia have received 48,000 waste sorting bins, in what marked the completion of the first phase of a EUR 49.1 million project. The project, announced at the beginning of 2019, envisages the delivery of about 1.23 million waste sorting bins for biodegradable waste (paper, cardboard, and biowaste) […]
Romanian town Iasi installs smart waste bins with solar panels, Wi-Fi
The Romanian town of Iasi has installed smart waste bins, which have a solar panel for power, a collection capacity eight times higher than the classic ones, and also serve as Wi-Fi hotspots, according to local media. The procurement of the smart bins cost Iasi over EUR 200,000 The Romanian town has deployed 30 such […]
Removal of SHPP pipes from river in southeastern Serbia scheduled for August 15
It’s not just a common illegal facility, but a small hydropower plant (SHPP) that will deprive the Rakita village residents of water, which to them is a matter of life and death. This is neither a whim nor politics, and that’s perfectly clear to everyone, says Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, one of the founders of a […]
Court halts Vrataruša 2 wind farm project over EIA study
Croatia’s High Administrative Court has annulled a decision of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy to free the investor from the obligation to produce an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the planned 24 MW Vrataruša 2 wind farm near the city of Senj. The ruling is based, among other things, on the potential adverse […]
Clim@ finalist Whole Surplus doesn’t let food go to waste
While hundreds of millions of people in the world face hunger, an incredible amount of food perishes or is landfilled. Whole Surplus is developing artificial intelligence for an ambitious aim: to improve operations of the companies in the sector and help those in need at the same time. The startup based in Turkey was ranked […]
EU to introduce plastic waste tax
The European Union is introducing a tax on non-recycled plastic packaging from 1 January 2021. The tax will be paid by member states into the EU’s general budget. The levy is one of the measures to finance the COVID-19 recovery package of EUR 750 billion. “As a first step, a new own resource will be […]
Slovenia launches online platform for preparation of coal phaseout strategy
The Ministry of Infrastructure has set up an online platform as the main communication channel for the activities related to the preparation of the national strategy for phasing out coal and the restructuring of coal regions. In accordance with the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), Slovenia must prepare a long-term national strategy for the […]