Waste
Serbia looking for contractor to build sanitary landfill Kalenić
19 January 2023 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched a tender for the construction of regional sanitary landfill Kalenić
North Macedonia secures funding for first major investment in waste management
18 January 2023 - The project will cover more than one million inhabitants in five regions: South-East, South-West, Pelagonia, Polog, and Vardar
EU to phase in CO2 border tax by end-2033, when it fully eliminates free carbon permits
20 December 2022 - The EU is set to fully phase out free carbon allowances for the industry four years after it implements the carbon border tax, CBAM, in its entirety
Ten commandments for sustainable waste management in Serbia
19 December 2022 - Over the past year, prominent domestic and international experts have scanned in detail the state of the sector and offered recommendations
Finnish startup retrofitting old Tesla batteries for other energy storage uses
01 December 2022 - Cactos from Finland gives alternative purposes to second-life electric vehicle batteries, with the help of its cloud-based software
Vinča regional landfill improves Serbia’s waste management in 2021
28 November 2022 - The new landfill in Vinca started operating in August 2021, according to the website of its operator Beo Čista Energija
Waste-to-energy in Serbia – a cause for concern or an opportunity to reap environmental-climate-energy benefits
11 November 2022 - In this latest article in the series "Serbia, from garbage dumps to circular economy", we discuss the waste-to-energy concept with Professor Vladimir Pavićević, Igor Jezdimirović, and Helga Stoiber
European Commission proposes stricter rules on air, water pollutants
27 October 2022 - The EU is amending the regulations for ambient air, surface and groundwater pollutants and urban wastewater treatment
Wastewater treatment plant in Leskovac starts producing power from biogas
30 September 2022 - The trial operation of the water, and sludge lines of the facility has been finished, and gas generators have been put into trial operation
EU wastes more food than it imports
26 September 2022 - At a time when 33 million citizens of the European Union cannot afford enough meals,...
Croatia’s example of good practice in biowaste management: creating value, protecting the environment
16 September 2022 - Suppose Croatia were to utilize its biowaste potential, of 400,000 tons entirely. In that case, it could produce 7.3% of the country’s total 2021 power output from renewables
Activists: EPBiH is covertly introducing waste with biomass as fuel for Tuzla power plant
09 September 2022 - Environmentalists claim waste is planned to be added as a fuel in the project to switch unit 3 in coal plant Tuzla to biomass
Making recycled paper from empty cigarette packs
31 August 2022 - Naša kuća, which employs persons with developmental disabilities, now has the opportunity to build a factory and modernize the manual production process
Fast fashion giant H&M accused of greenwashing in US lawsuit
19 August 2022 - The lawsuit appears to reflect consumers’ growing awareness of corporate greenwashing practices
Siemens Gamesa installs world’s first offshore wind turbine with recyclable blades
09 August 2022 - RWE started to test a wind turbine from Siemens Gamesa with fully recyclable blades at its offshore project Kaskasi
2021 municipal waste report: Croatia continues progress but targets still unreachable
04 August 2022 - The country continued to make progress in almost all important sectors of waste management, but it was not enough to achieve the set goals