Waste
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
Waste management sector can help Europe lower gas consumption
04 August 2022 - The sector conducts recycling and recovery operations and produces heat and energy through incineration and anaerobic digestion
Island of Tilos – zero waste gem in Aegean Sea
04 August 2022 - The island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea is implementing a waste management program that...
Hazardous industrial waste – export is expensive, but landfilling costs even more
19 July 2022 - In this latest article in the series “Serbia, from garbage dumps to circular economy,” we discuss the flow of industrial waste, primarily hazardous waste,
EPS intends to co-incinerate waste in two coal power plants
12 July 2022 - State-owned company has announced a tender for the preparation of investment and technical documentation for the co-incineration project
Plastic Bag Free Day, Plastic Free July – not all responsibility is on consumers
03 July 2022 - Recent studies revealed that microplastic pollution is taking on new forms and shapes that threaten human health
Environmentalists demand reusable, refillable packaging from biggest plastic polluters
17 June 2022 - Over 400 organizations demand that the five biggest plastic polluters commit to transparent, ambitious and accountable reuse and refill systems
Serbia to build regional waste management centers in Pirot, Sremska Mitrovica
15 June 2022 - The project of building regional and recycling centers will solve problems in 50 cities and municipalities, the government said
Packaging waste – how citizens pay for businesses’ irresponsibility
13 June 2022 - In this latest article in the series “Serbia, from garbage dumps to circular economy,” Balkan Green Energy News discuss the packaging waste management system with Violeta Belanović Kokir, Kristina Cvejanov, and Dragana Katić
Danske Commodities, Cory sign PPA for one of largest energy-from-waste facilities in UK
10 June 2022 - Every year the facility on the Thames river burns around 750,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste collected in London