Waste treatment plant in Plovdiv could open for business on June 30
Construction work will end by May 30 and will be followed by 30 days of testing before the plant can begin operations, city hall official says
Sun, Nov 22 2009
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Construction work will end by May 30 and will be followed by 30 days of testing before the plant can begin operations, city hall official says
It turns that Sofia's rubbish could be a good thing. As a result of its probable transfer to a waste treatment plant in the village of Shishmantsi, Rakovski municipality, residents of the Plovdiv region might not see a rise in their refuse tax in 2009, Dnevnik daily wrote on January 2.
Toplofikatsyia Sofia is looking into the possibility of using the fuel extracted from the mountains of the city's refuse, the chief executive of heating utility Toplofikatsiya Sofia Petko Milevski has said, as quoted by Dnevnik daily. The high-calorie fuel generated by processing refuse was far cheaper and would lower heating bills, which would be welcomed by the citizens of Sofia. Earlier this summer, Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov said that the city hall was considering a similar plan.
The most realistic option of solving Sofia's refuse problem was to send it to the processing factory in the village of Shishmantsi near Plovdiv, Bulgarian-language daily Dnevnik quoed Environment Minister Djevdet Chakurov as saying. On September 24, the Environment Ministry said in a media statement that Bulgaria did not face any sanctions concerning its commitments to the European Union on the issue of waste management, but added that the country needed 290 million leva to build landfills throughout the country.
During the last week of August, the city of Sofia sent official letters to several other Bulgaria municipalities asking them to store in their landfills the bales of Sofia's refuse currently housed at temporary storage facilities in the Kremikovtzi and Novi Iskur boroughs. However, all the municipalities refused to accept Sofia's 200 000 tons of baled rubbish.