The recycling capacities in Serbia are not on a level worth praising,
but the policy of the government is to increase them. According to
experts the number of companies that work in the recycling field has
grown over the past ten years, and they are recycling 10-15% of the
overall waste.
As part of the long term goals that Serbia needs to
achieve on its path to the EU, the strategy for waste management
envisages that in the period 2015-2019 the degree of utilization and
recycling of the packaging made of glass, paper, cardboard, metal and
plastic is to be increased to 25%. Europe is recycling three times as
much waste as Serbia, and in some part of the world the rate of
recycling is up to 80%. Since 2009 to this day the line ministry has
issued around 1,300 permits for waste management, of which 20% are the
integral permits for the recycling plants, while the rest are the
permits for the collection and transportation of the dangerous and
non-dangerous waste in our territory. In order to get closer to other EU
members it is necessary to issue certificates, i.e. bring all the
ecology standards closer, thus being able guarantee the services to this
industry and take it to a higher level. In the previous period the
state has stimulated the green and recycling industry by issuing permits
and subsidies, but the waste management requires investments in the
technology, proper management and integrated system of control and
supervision of waste flows.
To keep pace with how the countries of
the region and the EU are dealing with this issue, it is necessary to
revise the permit procedures and bust the supervision, both by the
financial police and environmental inspections. Therefore the line
ministry aims to create the conditions and lay foundation for a
significant improvement of the waste management system through the
legislation changes. After 2020 we will have to adequately deal with all
the waste generated in the Serbian territory, which means the
cross-border transport will not be allowed. It is our duty to build the
plants for the physical and chemical treatment of the dangerous waste,
as well as the industrial inorganic waste. The construction of such
facility is expensive, but it will decrease the risks to the living
environment and human health. Besides, Serbia is one of the rare
countries that does not have a dump for the industrial waste reports
Radio Srbija
(Balkans.com)