Balkan countries fare bad in waste treatment structure
Eurostat’s data as of 2014 revealed all markets followed by Balkan Green Energy News underperform overall European waste management achievements, except Slovenia, which is above average in recycling. Albania was excluded from the latest report. The mean rate of recycling is 28% and Slovenia tops it by 21 percentage points. In comparison, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, […]
Health costs of coal plants prompt policy rethink
A study quantified public health costs of polluted air from coal-fired power plants in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo* at up to EUR 8.56 billion per year. The calculation is made up of costs including from premature deaths, respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions, new cases of chronic bronchitis and lower respiratory problems, […]
Operator of Možura landfill inks biogas facility deal
Representatives of Možura d. o. o., landfill operator from Montenegro’s southern coastal municipality of Bar signed an agreement with a consortium of Indel inženjering d. o. o. from Podgorica and its partners from Slovenia to construct a facility for biogas aspiration, transport and combustion. The project worth EUR 300,000 has 150 days to be completed, while […]
Čačak gets waste recycling centre, transfer station
Regional waste management system Duboko, adjacent to the city of Užice in Serbia’s west, got backed up by a recycling centre and transfer station in nearby Čačak. The facilities worth EUR 1 million were opened by Stana Božović, state secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection. She said the project helps financial sustainability […]
Serbian government pledges funds for recyclers for last year
The government of Serbia will transfer RSD 1.9 billion (EUR 15.5 million) to the recycling industry. Contracts have been signed with 14 firms, which are entitled to financing according to processed documentation for last year, Snežana Bogosavljević Bošković, minister of agriculture and environmental protection of Serbia, said after the meeting with the representatives of the sector. […]
Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change With Vulnerability Assessment for the City of Belgrade
Project: Climate Change Adaptation in the Western Balkans (CCAWB) Component 5: Integration of adaptation to climate change into urban planning and development Commissioned by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Countries: Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo*, Macedonia (FYR), Serbia Duration: 2012–2015 IMPLEMENTER Secretariat for Environmental Protection is the implementer and organiser of project activities […]
Waste incineration powering 26,000 homes in Konya
A new facility in the Anatolian province of Konya generates electricity from municipal waste and is run by the municipal authority, Tahir Akyürek, the mayor of Konya city, told the press, Daily Sabah and Anadolu Agency reported. The power is produced by burning methane gas from the solid waste landfill, and 2,850 cubic meters of […]
Draft law produced on cut in greenhouse gas emissions
Minister of agriculture and environmental protection Snežana Bogosavljević Bošković said obligatory monitoring and reporting on industrial emissions of greenhouse gases is included in the new bill on the reduction of emissions. The draft law was created within a project from 2012 funded by the European Union through Instruments for Pre-Accession. The bill, planned for adoption in […]
