Electronic waste

People living in apartment buildings in Sofia will be able to ask for separate waste collection containers to be used by them. This will be possible with the re-signing of the separate collection contracts between the Sofia Municipality and the recovery organizations Ecopack, EcoBulpack and Bulecopack.

For 17 days, two ships with 12,000 tons landed in the city, another 5,000 tons arrived through the Bosphorus. 168 chasa made an enquiry to the Regional Inspection for Environment and Waters. After that they issued three recommendations for storing and transporting the torn smelly bales.

Greece is among the 14 EU member-states that are at risk of missing the 2020 target of 50 percent recycling of municipal waste, the European Commission said in a report on the implementation of EU legislation published on Monday.

Besides Greece, the other countries are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.

Bulgaria will be able to export "second hand" clothes to Third World countries if the textile waste collection system in our country develops. This was made clear by the words of Sirma Zheleva, a waste treatment expert in a second hand textile and clothes processing company.

The latest investment in the paper recycling industry aims to increase production to 5 million tons per year by 2020, the Waste Paper and Recyclers Association (AGED) said.

The Center for the preparation of secondary raw materials (the Center) is the most modern sorting plant in this part of Europe and the only one in the region providing purely real recycling. Construction began at the end of August 2017 and the machines were tested for the first time in the middle of May 2018. The Center will be fully operational by the end of June this year.

Trivan said he "does not like to talk about penalties because that is the last measure" - but that in such cases the law provides for between six months and five years in prison for those found guilty.

Huge fire broke out in a workshop for plastic waste on the territory of the waste processing plant near the village of Shishmantsi in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv on 2nd of June. The fire has not yet been extinguished, reported BNT. 

There are no injured people in the incident.

Albanian singers are helping to raise awareness of two hot environmental issues - the planned construction of hydropower plants on the Valbona river, one of Europe's last wild rivers, and the adoption of law once again allowing waste imports.

A court in ?zmir has ordered a stay of execution in the controversial dismantling of an oil refining ship that allegedly contained radioactive waste - but only after most of the vessel had already been dismantled.

The ?zmir 3rd Administrative Court released its order for a stay of execution on Oct. 16, just days before the dismantling was set to be completed.