Incineration

Top Chinese official tours power plant, steelmaker

Serbian PM Ana Brnabic and Chairman of China's National People's Congress Zhang Dejiang on Monday visited the Kostolac B power plant in eastern Serbia.

Brbanic said that the project of building a flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) facility in the power plant's B1 and B2 blocks was completed in cooperation with China.

National Council for Tripartite Cooperation: Garbage Fee in Bulgaria May be Calculated in 3 Different Ways

Bulgaria's National Council for Tripartite Cooperation has proposed new options for calculating the garbage fee in Bulgaria.

If the new rules become a reality, municipalities will have to choose between three options for calculating the fee, bTV reported.

Holy Synod refuses to sanction cremation

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece on Thursday repeated its refusal to sanction the practice of cremation, in an announcement issued on Thursday.

“The Holy Synod refuses [to accept] that it is dignified for the deceased to be burned in a furnace,” it said after a meeting chaired by Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos.

Sofia's New Integrated Municipal Waste Management System Completed

The construction of Sofia's new integrated municipal waste management system has been completed and all of the equipment has been installed.

The waste treatment facility was built with EU funding provided under operational program Environment 2007-2013, according to a media statement of the Sofia Municipality.

Citizens of Stara Zagora Stage Protest Against Minks Farm Construction

The citizens of Stara Zagora have started a protest against the planned construction of a farm, whose main activity will be burning of minks in the nearby village of Madzherito.

Close to 17 000 people have already signed the online petition opposing the project, as reported by bTV.

Employee of firm tasked with destroying contraband caught stealing it

A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Thessaloniki for stealing contraband cigarettes that had been seized by police and were awaiting incineration.

The man worked at the firm in the Efkarpia area that was due to destroy the cigarettes but was found in possession of 2,565 packets from the illegal consignment.

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