Radioactive waste storage creates problems in Croatia-BiH relations
The European Commission has warned Croatia that it has two months to fully implement the directive on radioactive waste management or it will be taken to the Court of Justice. The Croatian authorities decided earlier that the only possible site for a storage facility for radioactive waste is on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina […]
ISWA President: Wind turbine blades as future non-recyclable waste cause for concern
Rapid expansion of wind power, besides its various positive impacts on the environment, is a cause for concern since it will generate, as studies show, millions of tons of non-recyclable waste in the future, Antonis Mavropoulos, President of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), warned. Mavropoulos in an opinion posted on his blog said that around […]
European Commission urges Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus to tackle environmental issues
The European Commission (EC) has requested in its July infringement package from several EU member states in South-East Europe to tackle environmental issues like emissions or waste management, and to apply the EU rules in this regard. The EC requested Romania to tackle emissions from large combustion plants, adding that four industrial plants in the […]
Consortium Suez-Itochu only bidder for Vinča landfill rehabilitation project
One offer from the French-Japanese consortium Suez-Itochu has been received for public-private partnership contract for the rehabilitation of Vinča landfill near Belgrade, the city authorities announced. Opening of the bids for the public-private partnership contract for the treatment and disposal of municipal waste at Vinča landfill was held on July 13, and only one bid […]
EBRD Sustainable Energy Award to cement maker Salonit Anhovo
The Salonit Anhovo cement maker won the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) bronze Sustainable Energy Award for the progress it achieved in using non-hazardous solid recovered waste in its energy mix. Another reason for the award to the Slovenian company is the fact that it lowered its pollution to levels that the cement […]
Minister Trivan: cooperation with CSOs and media very important for reaching environmental goals
Serbia can make a big leap both in practice and political aspect in the field of environment, Minister of Environmental Protection of Serbia Goran Trivan said stressing the importance of civil society and the media in this process. He announced that the newly established Ministry of Environmental Protection will be more open to the civil […]
Republic of Srpska waiting for waste management strategy
The draft Strategy on waste management has been submitted to the Republika of Srpska Parliament for adoption and has won unanimous support among MPs, RS Spatial Planning, Civil Engineering and Ecology Srebrenka Golić said in a meeting with Swedish Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Anders Hagelberg. The ambassador said the Republic of Srpska has taken positive steps […]
New state secretaries appointed at Croatian Ministry of Environment and Energy
The Government of Croatia has appointed Ivo Milatić and Mile Horvat as state secretaries at the Croatian Ministry of Environment and Energy. Milatić is former Assistant Minister of Economy who has served two terms as Director of Commodity Reserves Directorate. From 2012 to 2014, he was the Chairman of the Croatian Compulsory Oil Stocks Agency’s […]