"WASTE" PROJECT - SUPPORT TO MUNICIPAL COMMUNAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
14.01.2015

After successfully realized project "Living Green", which results at the beginning of last year 2014 were promoted by Palilula Municipality in Nis and the Municipality of Ihtiman, PUE "Mediana" through cross-border project "Waste Management System-exchange of good practice in the BG-RS cross-border region WASTE ", with Bulgarian Municipality of Pernik provided buckets and bags for selecting waste. The division to people, living in the territory of Mediana and Palilula, will start in March and by the end of January and a special car that will participate in recycling waste will also come, it was announced at a press conference.

"For the project WASTE from EU has been provided 570,000 euros, with what is around 65,000 euros given to Municipality of Pernik for technical assistance in the implementation, and the other part of it was intended for the purchase of special courts and bags, printing promotional materials and educating citizens. Participation of the utility company "Mediana" in the project amounts to 75,000 euros and this money is invested in the purchase of trucks for waste collection.

Project "WASTE" basically means improving the management of municipal waste in Nis. It predicts the division of about 20,000 cans and 138 thousand plastic bags into which people from Nis will be recyclable waste dispose: PET packaging, plastics, paper, cans, glass. Thus collected waste will be taken with special vehicles to the recycling center for further selection and preparation for processing. "Recycling Center, as it is announced, is equipped in the building of PUC" Mediana ". The City of Nis for this purpose allocated 22 million from the budget, and the Republic of Serbia has paid 30 million dinars for the purchase of equipment for waste separation.

With the selection and recycling of waste significant economic effects are expected, since it will employ in the recycling circle hundred people and all recycled waste will be sold. The value of this project is the fact that citizens should learn to preserve the environment and that the waste does not end on the streets. This project, according to the director Bratislav Vuckovic, goes beyond the importance of the PUC "Mediana". With these activities clear message is sent to the citizens of the region and similar systems are widely applied in Europe, examples of good practice for environmental protection.

Our citizens need some time to adjust to the collection and separation of waste material. With our project "Living Green", which included environmental education of children in kindergartens, schools and other community groups, says the president of Palilula Municipality Boban Džunić, we have tried to show the importance of this activity. Number of illegal dumps is reduced in our neighborhoods, but this is only the beginning of their everyday work. By entering Serbia into the European Union, these rules will be part of our life and must be respected.