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The promise to clean up landfills in Eastern and Northeastern regions of North Macedonia is on the slow track
The Kumanovo landfill “Krasta” is one of the locations that should be rehabilitated, and turned into a waste transfer station, with a special new biological waste composting plant. Photo: Meta.mk
From 2020 to date, the cleaning of the unstandardized municipal landfills and solid waste illegal dumps in the Eastern and Northeastern planning region of North Macedonia has been stalled. There...
The food banks in Portugal can feed up to 4% of the total population
Portugal has over 10 million citizens and even 21 food banks, which can feed up to 4% of this EU member country's total population. Their main goal is to fight against throwing all kinds of food as waste and to divert the secured surplus from food distributors to those who need it most - the people who are in...
Plastic bags sales in North Macedonia garnered €720,0000, the money will be used for waste selection
The sale of the biodegradable plastic bags in North Macedonia in just four months – from the 1st of December 2021 to the end of March 2022 brought MKD44.7 million, or over €720,000, to the state’s coffers, says the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MEPP) for Meta.mk. The calculations and the payments by the retailers from the plastic...
After 82 days in office, Mayor Danela Arsovska still hadn’t cleaned all illegal dumps throughout Skopje
The first 82 days since Mayor Danela Arsovska took over the helm of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, expired on Friday, the 28th of January, which prompted Meta.mk to check on site whether one of the most important promises that Arsovska gave in her election campaign was fulfilled: cleanup of the illegal dumps throughout Skopje.
During her election campaign,...
Thousands of people in Kumanovo region in past 4 decades have been poisoned by arsenic and other toxic deposits
In the past several decades, the villages of Tabanovce, Lojane and Vaksince in the Kumanovo region have been continuously poisoned by arsenic and other toxic elements that had been dispersed on two locations near the border of North Macedonia with Serbia.
At the first location, in the proximity of the Tabanovce Railway Station there is an illegal dump with hundreds...
Call for tender for cleaning the toxic lindane from OHIS’ small landfill
The international tender for the selection of technology for the removal of lindane and its isomers from the OHIS' yard in Skopje was published yesterday and is expected to be open until the 11th of November, informs the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES).
The tender has been published at UNIDO's official webpage.
The Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning explains that as...
The dumps at Vardar River bring profit to someone and air pollution to everyone: “We burn waste to survive”
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...
