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Macedonia ranks at the bottom of Europe according to the percentage of wastewater treatment [infographic]
Macedonia, together with Serbia and Kosovo, are at the bottom of Europe according to the percentage of the population that has access at least to a secondary treatment of urban waste waters, shows the Eurostat and Macedonian State Statistical Office's data. In 2018, only 21,7% of the urban wastewaters in North Macedonia were subjected to treatment before being discharged...
The deadline for the completion of the Kichevo-Ohrid highway expired, the annex with the Chinese Sinohydro is yet to be sent to the Parliament
The 30th of June marked the expiration of the second set deadline for finishing the construction of the Kichevo-Ohrid highway on the Corridor VIII from East to West in North Macedonia. The additional annex to the agreement for extending the building of this highway is yet to be sent to the Parliament of the North Macedonia to be adopted...
Portalb.mk: Declaring Shar Mountain a national park will not stop the construction of 7 small hydro power plants
The construction of the small hydro power plants on Shar Mountain has started. Although it is a matter of days when Shar Mountain will be declared a national park, the 7 hydro power plants whose construction is underway, will yet see the light of the day. Portalb.mk got this information from Hisen Xhemaili, the director of the Environmental Protection...
North Macedonia: Two-thirds of human excrement still end up untreated in rivers and underground waters
In 2020, North Macedonia experienced no substantial advancement in the field of protection of the waters from the sewage. Two-thirds of the human excrement from the populated areas are still dumped in rivers and underground waters without undergoing any treatment. No major wastewater treatment plants were put into use in the cities throughout the country last year, so the...
Government of North Macedonia pays farmers €3.5 million annually in natural disaster compensations
The climate change is posing serious threat to North Macedonia's agricultural production. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy and the Commission for Assessment of Damages at the Government of North Macedonia by average pay €3.5 million to farmers annually in weather and climate-related extreme events compensations, informed the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy for Meta.mk.
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Instead of declining, problem with lack of parking spaces in Skopje is growing
The lack of parking spaces in Skopje is becoming a chronic problem. The number of cars on the streets of the capital of North Macedonia is on the rise from year to year and this trend is not leading to opening new parking locations for these vehicles. The statistical data shows that the city's authorities aren't able to open...
North Macedonia last year increased the drinking water consumption by the quantity used annually in the Northeastern Region
Water consumption in North Macedonia has been growing throughout the years, and last year record quantities of potable water were taken from nature by the water utilities. According to the data provided by the State Statistical Office, in 2020, the public water utilities produced 313,031,000 cubic meters of drinking water, i.e. almost 10 million cubic meters more than in...
Energy and Water Regulatory Commission of North Macedonia will not be setting the final electricity price in future
It is highly likely that the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (RKEVU) of North Macedonia will no longer have the role of an electricity market regulator, which is influencing the final price of the electricity that households and small companies are paying, announced RKEVU's President Marko Bislimoski.
In the future, RKEVU will only be regulating the tariff system i.e. the...
Half a year passed but the illegal landfills in the Eastern and Northeastern regions in North Macedonia haven’t been cleaned yet
Large quantities of waste deposited at various locations in the Eastern and Northeastern regions or North Macedonia are still waiting for the Green Agenda and the clean up. The people living in 18 municipalities in these two regions are still waiting for the removal of substandard municipality landfills, an action that was announced at the start of this year....
Number of households in North Macedonia with cars twice bigger than those with bicycles
The statistics shows that the number of households that own a car is more than double the number of households with at least one bike. According to the data provided by the State Statistical Office (SSO), only 30.7% of the Macedonian households has owned a bicycle in 2020. This number is by 2.8% less compared to 2019, and owning...
The more we are dumping waste in the nature, the more we are distancing from the EU
Instead of coming closer to the EU standards, year by year, North Macedonia is falling behind the EU member countries more and more in regard of waste management. Statistical data shows that Macedonian citizens and companies are continuously increasing the scope of created communal waste which in turn is inadequately managed from the moment the waste is thrown. Instead...
Illegal logging, poaching and illegal waste dumping harshest enemies to protected areas in North Macedonia
Civil society organizations appeal for better conservation of the protected areas in North Macedonia and for better assistance to the managers in preserving the biodiversity. Illegal logging, poaching, dumping enormous quantities of waste by irresponsible people and jeopardizing the living world are the greatest threats to the areas with the country's greatest natural treasures. The environmentalists, during the days...
The awareness of waste selection and recycling cannot be bought with money
In the European countries, one has to pay in order to deposit waste glass to the recycler, and only in North Macedonia, the companies are offering themselves to pay for this type of selected waste. Regardless, there is not enough interest in waste selection. This example was stated by AKRON company which treats waste glass in North Macedonia.
The company...
Photovoltaic power plants most numerous among the new energy facilities in North Macedonia last year
There is still a great interest in North Macedonia for producing electricity from the sun and water as renewable sources of energy (RSE) compared to remaining sources of green energy. Like in the previous years, the number of newly built energy plants in the last year were photovoltaic plants, while the small hydro power plants that were built have...
Тhe Italians left, new contractor sought to finish express road Rankovce-Kriva Palanka
Since the agreement with the Italian company Tirena Scavi was terminated, a new contractor is sought to finish the building of the express road Rankovce-Kriva Palanka at Corridor 8. The Public Enterprise for State Roads of North Macedonia has issued an international call for tender that will finish the first subsection from Dlabochica to Chatal, in the length of...
Slag from Topilnica in Veles will be separated in closed system to avoid dust dispersion
A new, modern separation line for the mineral raw material will be installed near the slag deposits from the former Topilnica (smelting plant) in Veles, North Macedonia. It's modern equipment which functions as a closed system, which in turn helps to avoid all possibilities of polluting the air and creating dust during the process of raw material separation. The...
Urban railway vital for Skopje to ease pressure from urbanization and congestion
One of the primary and instant solutions to ease the pressure from the "concretization" of the central areas of metropolitan cities in the developed countries is the development of fast, cheap, high-capacity and safe means of mass transportation of people from the city centers toward the suburban areas and vice versa. Due to the high speed of movement, the...
Several months after cleanup, river Vardar’s bank near Trubarevo turned into illegal landfill again [Photo gallery]
Only several months after the City of Skopje intervened at the former location of the Vardarishte landfill, pulling down the illegal gateways along the river Vardar, the river bank starting from Vardarishte toward Trubarevo village, was again tuned into an enormous landfill. Trucks, wagons, and vans are accessing the location using the roads from Lisiche, then passing the iron...
Municipalities in North Macedonia last year weren’t able to collect over 280,000 tons of communal waste
Macedonian citizens are continuing with the creation of enormous quantities of communal waste, that municipality communal enterprises aren't able to collect and transfer to the landfills. In 2020, the total collected communal waste was 913 033 tons, show the data provided by the State Statistical Office. Compared to 2019, we have created 1% less waste, but far more waste...
Improving air quality in Skopje needs more assets and stricter controls
In order to see tangible improvement of the air quality in Skopje in 2 to 3 years, bold and all-encompassing activities for solving the problem with air pollution are necessary, not just some minor assets from the budgets allocated each year for this purpose. The priority should be the decrease of the pollution with PM particles, and those that...
