Tag: wastewater

The inflow in the central budget of North Macedonia from the environmental taxes is on the rise. In 2019, €219 084 552 were collected in the state budget i.e. a record sum of taxes was paid, compared to the previous years, shows the State Statistical Office's data. A year before, in 2018, €209 190 164 were collected, while in 2014,...

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...

On the occasion of the World Water Day, the 22nd of March, Meta.mk reminds that 2021 is the year when the tender procedures should be completed and the building of the long time promised wastewater treatment plants in Skopje, Bitola, Tetovo will start. With their construction, over 50% of the urban wastewater created in Macedonia will no longer be...

The State Environmental Inspectorate has conducted an extraordinary inspection at the OHIS chemical industry complex near Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, where 6 facilities are still operating. One produces cannabis oil and the remaining are stockpiling both hazardous and non-hazardous waste. "During the inspection, Eko-centar was repackaging poluting chemicals that were stored there for so long, preparing them for...

The Skopje Waterworks and Sewage Public Enterprise "Vodovod i kanalizacija - Skopje" announced it will publish an invitation for pre-qualification of the most favorable bidder for design and construction of a wastewater treatment plant for the city of Skopje. It is estimated that the wastewater treatment plant at Trubarevo will cost 136 million EUR. With the agreements between the Government...