When it comes to aligning standards with the EU, one of the conditions that Serbia will have to meet is the introduction of the circular economy in the process of production itself or the use of waste as a resource in the industry.
In order to make this possible, it is necessary to increase the level of recycling, solve the problem of hazardous and historical waste, and enable cooperation between the public and the private sectors in order to create a favourable business environment for new investors – this was the conclusion of the panel discussion entitled “A new chapter in hazardous waste management in Serbia”, which was held last month in Novi Sad, organised by Miteco and the ISWA World Congress 2016.
Chairman of the ISWA Working Group on Hazardous Waste, Jean-Paul Leglise, spoke during the panel about activities on the preparation of a manual for the hazardous waste management, which is being implemented in cooperation with UNEP and UNIDO.
The panel’s participants also included Dr Stefan Salhofer, University of Natural Resources and Applied Sciences in Vienna, Peter Hodecek, representative of the European Federation of Waste Management “FEAD”, and Nenad Marković, director for energy production JP EPS, Branch “TE-KO Kostolac”.