€228 million for waste management in Belgrade until 2020

The aldermen of the City Assembly adopted Thursday the Local Plan for Waste Management in the City of Belgrade for the period 2011-2020, of which implementation is expected to cost EUR 228 million.

The Plan primarily implies that all citizens of the capital city should be covered by the waste collecting service, which is why new underground containers will be installed in central city boroughs, while the network of regular containers and trash cans will be expanded in the suburbs.

The Plan covers 10 central city boroughs, as well as the boroughs of Grocka, Mladenovac, Surcin and Sopot.

- Each borough will get a green yard where the citizens will be able to dispose of their waste and bulk trash for free. The waste from such yard will be transported to a recycling plant, and the plan is to build two transfer stations, one in New Belgrade and the other in Rakovica, where waste will treated for the needs of transport to the Waste Management Center in Vinca - City Secretary for Environment Protection Goran Trivan explained the plan.

What is also in the pipeline is the rehabilitation of the existing landfill in Vinca and construction of a new one, which will be in accordance with international standards. The plan also includes the use of landfill gas in electricity generation.

According to the plan, the funds for all aforementioned projects will be provided from the city budget, environment protection funds, and loans.

The aldermen also adopted a decision to declare the Arboretum of the Faculty of Forestry Engineering a protected area of local significance, that is, a monument of nature.

The Arboretum of the Faculty of Forestry Engineering represents a collection of trees and bushes intended primarily for use in practical teaching, education and instructions at this and other faculties of the Belgrade University.