The contract on public-private partnership provides for the delivery of 510.000 tons of municipal waste per year to the thermal power plant in Vinča. However, in the last two years, about 100.000 more tons of municipal waste have arrived
Vinča thermal power plant, better known as the incinerator waste, has a problem with the amount of garbage that is brought to that facility from the territory of Belgrade, writes the New Economy.
As it turned out, the available space for waste disposal which was supposed to be enough for the next 25 to 30 years, will be filled already in 12 to 15 years.
Namely, the Vinča thermal power plant was designed to burn 340.000 tons of waste, and the Public-Private Partnership Agreement provides for the delivery of 510.000 tons of municipal waste per year.
However, in the last two years, between 635.000 and 625.000 tons of municipal waste have arrived in Vinč, 25 percent more than expected.
Aleksandar Jovović, a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, tells "Vreme" that two possibilities arise from this. One is for the city (Belgrade) to start transporting waste to another place and start some sort of primary separation of waste.
"Unfortunately, there is almost no primary separation system in the waste management system in the city of Beorgad," Professor Jovović points out.
Another possibility, says the professor, is that these plants start building another thermal treatment line over time, which is also very acceptable, but it is a new investment.
Where does this much waste come from?
More inhabitants in a city means more municipal waste. Professor Jovović says that sometime in 2010, when the first waste management plan for Belgrade was drawn up, it was foreseen that over time 30 percent of the waste would go to recycling, to be processed into fuel, and 30 percent would end up in the landfill as an unusable mass in the sense of some recyclables or thermal treatment, but that concept never took off.
"They saw that the separation was going poorly, and then this method was planned, which is also completely fine, but unfortunately there is no separation, and the amount of waste in Beorgad is increasing, which of course creates a problem for the operation as well," indicated our interlocutor.
One of the keys – primary separation
Jovović explains that it was introduced into the system that at the large transfer stations where the waste will be transferred from the smaller ones to the larger trucks, before going to Vinča, there will be a primary separation - "there, one part of the waste should be separated", and one part, he adds, by setting up more recycling yards in the city, more pieces per city.
"Of course, this does not mean that it will be placed in Terazije, but in certain places, convenient for citizens to bring some types of waste that they should not throw in containers," says Jovović.
He adds that the minimum separation into "two bins" is to put the biodegradable component in one, i.e. everything left in the kitchen from food, yard, leaves, etc., and in the other recyclable component, newspapers, cans, packaging, etc.
"That guarantees that you will use a lot of it, that you will put that recyclable on the market, and that the rest of your waste will go to incineration, and you can create a balance somewhere," Professor Jovović concludes.
The introduction of primary separation would imply an organized city and population.
"It's not the point of my will, it's the point of society, and it's something that benefits society." Just as it is forbidden to drive through a red light because it is dangerous for the whole society, so you should separate waste, you should take care of waste water, so you should not throw garbage into the river", emphasizes Professor Aleksandar Jovović.
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