Tag: air pollution

This summer, the first quantities of medical waste will be sterilized at Drisla landfill, that services Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The new unit that the landfill has acquired will start working from next month, which means the procedure for burning waste created by COVID-19 centers and other medical institutions in Macedonia will finally be abandoned. Drisla's incinerator,...

The ecological taxes are one of the most efficient ways to fight climate change and a measure of stimulation for low-carbon development. In North Macedonia, the greatest source of greenhouse gases is the energy sector, through thermal power stations that use coal. This also includes transportation and heating with fossil fuels such as oil, petroleum jelly, or coal. Both...

The lifting of restrictive measures which were imposed to limit the movement of citizens due to the coronavirus has begun. By slowing all human activities that are damaging the environment, the air pollution decreased. This is evident from the latest data that indicate a lower presence of PM 2.5 and PM 10 particles and the nitric duoxide in the...

“Meta.mk” continues with the investigation of the influence of the traffic on the air quality in Skopje. The coronavirus outbreak in the past few months has helped prove that the decreased frequency of vehicles throughout Skopje’s streets has led to decrease of the PM 2.5 and PM10 particles and the nitric oxide in the Skopje's air during April 2020. PE...

Out of the 466,000 registered vehicles in the country, until 2017, 269,000 were made before 2002. The math shows that more than half of the vehicles on our roads in the country are 18 years or older. According to the Ministry of Economy's Rule-book on old-timers, the status of a vehicle with  special museum value (old-timer) is given to a...

The civic association "O2 Initiative" is organizing public debate "Environmental Degradation - A Threat to National Security", which will take place on Sunday (April 14th) in the Public Room starting at 15.30. The three presidential candidates Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, Blerim Reka and Stevo Pendarovski will participate in the debate. "In the wake of the presidential elections, taking into account the serious...

Thick grey smoke rises afar, in the direction of the squat at the foot of Kale Hill, where we are headed together with a team from the City Inspector Office. This is the location where this winter we have on many occassions seen that something is burning and the stench of the burnt rubber and plastics trailed down Vardar...

At yesterday's regular session, the government adopted the program for the implementation of the Clean Air Plan for  2019. It is based on four components: measures for dealing directly with the causes of air pollution, building public awareness from pre-school age to retirement, regulatory changes necessary for the transition to a low-emission energy system and establishing a platform for...

In December, environmental inspectors from the City of Skopje carried out eight unannounced inspections in industrial buildings that are under the city’s authority, after emissions of harmful gases in four of them were confirmed, say the city inspectorate regarding the activities of inspections related to the handling of air pollution. Polluters, whose names will not be published by the City...

Where the former OHIS one-hectare plant used to stand, apart from thousands of tons of carcinogenic lindane, other poisonous chemicals also lie, and must be urgently addressed, informed several competent institutions for Meta. At the OHIS site, there is mercury, other pesticides, acids and PVC powder, Adnan Kahil told Meta, who until recently was a minister without portfolio in Zoran...

By the end of the year, the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning will close the area off with a fence in Drachevo where there are doubts that an illegal landfill is located containing 8,000 tons of lindane, which came from the OHIS plant, State Secretary from the Ministry, Ana Petrovska confirmed for "Meta". She said that after Meta reported on...

In the next two days, if the concentration of PM-10 particles exceeds 200 micrograms per cubic meter of air, at least two emergency measures will be put into force, explained government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski at a press conference this afternoon. These measures are for conditions such as pollution, to relieve pregnant women, people over the age of 60 years, people...

Free public transport from today - in JSP buses and in private carriers. These are just some of the measures taken by the City of Skopje to deal with the enormous air pollution in recent weeks, announced today Mayor Trajanovski at a press conference. They will include washing the streets, control on construction sites and vehicles leaving construction sites,...