Bujanovac builds transfer stations for waste management

Bujanovac (Photo: bujanovac.rs)

The municipality of Bujanovac has collected most of the funds required for the construction of transfer station for waste at the Bujanovac landfill, so it is expected that the first phase of construction will be finished this year, Fazila Azemovic, the manager of the Municipal Office for Local Economic Development, said Thursday.

She expects that pollution in the municipality will be significantly reduced after Bujanovac gets this transfer station because citizens will then be able to bring their waste to the transfer station and get paid for it instead of just throwing it away.

Azemovic told Beta news agency that that was both a need and obligation of the Bujanovac municipality on the basis of regional protocol on waste management signed few years ago, by which all municipalities in the Pcinj Region should build transfer stations at their landfills and to dispose of non-recyclable waste at the sanitary landfill Meteris near Vranje.

Bujanovac has prepared the RSD 2 million transfer station construction project with the support of EU Progres.

According to Azemovic, Bujanovac decided to finance the construction of transfer station from its own resources, although it received offers from private businesses for public-private partnership with a 20-year concession.

The first phase of construction of transfer station for waste classification and recycling costs RSD 71 million, a part of which is provided by the municipality, part by the Coordination Body for Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, while the rest of the funds was asked from the Economy Ministry.