Greek entrepreneurs sought in relation to waste affair
Cyprus attorney general Costas Clerides ordered European arrest warrants to be issued for construction mogul Leonidas Bobolas and businessman Theofanis Lolos, both from Greece, for suspected involvement in embezzlement in waste management in Marathounda and Koshi. According to Socrates Hasikos, interior minister of Cyprus, the state can officially terminate the contract with Greek company Helector […]
Contract signed for recycling centre in Bajina Bašta
Intergovernmental development organization International Management Group (IMG) will implement the project of the construction of a recycling facility in Bajina Bašta financed by a EUR 175,000 donation from Sweden. The municipality, located in Serbia’s west, provides another EUR 25,000, according to the agreement. Radomir Filipović, head of local authority, said the project covers primary separation […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Čakovec waste utility acquires third hybrid truck
The Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (FZOEU) granted 40% of the funds for the purchase of a hybrid vehicle for the transport of urban waste in Čakovec, town in Croatia’s north. This is the third such truck in Čakom, the local utility company, and it was payed HRK 737,200 (EUR 96,800). Equipped with automatic […]