As Kosovo’s capital city and economic center, Prishtina sits at an important crossroads, welcoming new residents and accompanying development while balancing the challenges and demands of rapid urbanization...
Since 2000 the municipal waste management sector in BiH is under reform driven by the policy framework of the European Union (EU). As a potential candidate country for EU accession Bosnia and Herzegovina...
The development objective of the Jharkhand Municipal Development Project for India is to improve urban service delivery and urban management capacity in participating urban local bodies. Some of the negative...
This paper, waste in Russia: trash or valuable resource, illustrates various scenarios for sector treatments of municipal solid waste. Russia annually produces 55-60 million tons of municipal solid waste...
This paper on Municipal solid waste in Ukraine explains that beginning from the 2000s, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (CMU) have adopted a number of laws and regulations to make policy in the field of...
Many manufacturers underestimate waste costs by focusing on disposal expenses and recycling revenue, missing the high cost of raw materials that don't end up in the final product. In fact, by tracking...
This study revealed that Ukraine generates over 49 million tons of unused agro-industrial waste per year. Waste-to-energy recovery of 20 million tons of waste can be economically viable and trigger over...
The objectives of the Second Solid Waste Management Project (SWMP-2) for Bosnia and Herzegovina were to: i) improve public health and quality of life by reducing exposure to pollutants and disease vectors...
The European Union (EU) sets the policy framework for municipal solid waste management that drives reform initiatives in new EU member states and candidate countries. The EU policies, implementation targets...
The guidebook provides assistance to local governments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with special emphasis on the European Union (EU) accession countries, on how to develop cost effective waste...
The Municipal Sector Investment Project, partly financed by a $75 million World Bank loan made in 1992, marked the successful beginning of a decentralization effort in Tunisia to strengthen municipalities...