Waste recycling
Why did "E-recycling" from Niš fire 180 workers
Layoffs have begun in the recycling sector, after the state canceled incentives for waste removal in Serbia from January 1, 2026. During that time, citizens - regularly pay the eco tax
Waste
Recyclers: The Ministry announced a competition - which is not in accordance with the law
Recyclers in Serbia do not want to accept old tires and water heaters, because they called the new state incentives "absurd", and they say that many of them do not even comply with the law
Recycling
Old boilers and tires will not flood Serbia after all: The state is returning incentives for waste under pressure
Under the pressure of the invasion of old refrigerators, tires and water heaters in nature, the state returns incentives to companies dealing with recycling waste in Serbia
Environmental protection
Ecology in the background: Serbia calls into question millions of euros from EU funds
Serbia ignored its obligations to the European Union to adopt the Environmental Protection Strategy. That's why Brussels has blocked some funds, claims Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Forestry, Aleksandar Anđelković. This can mean the loss of millions of euros in grants
Ecology
Boilers and tires will flow in Serbian rivers: The state canceled incentives for recycling waste
As of January 1, 2026, the state suspended incentives for waste. Some recycling companies, "Vreme" has learned, have stopped accepting old tires, refrigerators and batteries. Many are scared for further survival, even though they are engaged in work of public interest. What will happen to this waste?
Smederevo Palanka
Between second-hand goods and garbage: Flea market under the slope of a wild dump
While second-hand clothing and household appliances are sold at the flea market in Smederevska Palanka, a mountain of waste grows above the stalls. Despite the government's promises, the illegal landfill over the city's skyline has been expanding for years. And the local elections are approaching
Ecology
BIRN: Novi Sad is burying its nature - excavators are destroying a protected lake
The city, which at the beginning of the year was awarded international accreditation for the conservation of wetlands, now allows rubble and waste to be dumped in Lake Bager for days.
Uzice
Citizens are "guilty", bills are higher, and garbage is everywhere: It overflows from the container to Užice
One year after the fire at the "Duboko" landfill, Užice is suffocating in its own garbage. From PUK "Bioktoš" they say that it is not up to them - but up to "irresponsible individuals" who "give the impression of inaction" of the company
Novi Sad
Nova Ekonomija: PUC "Čistoća" from Novi Sad announced a tender for someone else to work instead
The work announced by PUC "Čistoća" from Novi Sad includes cleaning public areas with a broom, collecting waste and loading it into a truck or container, removing waste from waste containers, collecting bulky and construction waste
Beograd
Instead of trucks, waste should be transported by ships
The trucks that bring waste to the Vinča landfill every day pass through the city center, which is unsustainable from both an economic and an environmental point of view. Ships would be the right solution - suggests the Belgrade on the Move organization
Environment
Millions of plastic cups are used unnecessarily in kindergartens in Serbia
They were introduced due to the pandemic, but they have survived to this day in many kindergartens. Why do children in Serbia still drink from plastic cups and why are we accumulating new waste?
Beograd
Why do foxes roam Belgrade?
Unusual scenes were recorded in Belgrade. Videos circulating on the Internet show foxes walking the streets at night
Landfill in Čačak
More and more people from Čačan are getting involved in blocking the unloading of waste
The citizens of Čačak demand that PUC remove the accumulated garbage from the Transfer Station, and that the city government provide another location for waste transshipment, as well as a waste dump
Waste management in the Republic of Serbia
Government against the environment
"At the session of the Stara Pazova Municipal Assembly, held on September 10, 2024, all SNS councilors voted for the adoption of the budget report for 2023, in which zero dinars were earmarked for waste management and zero for nature protection," he says for " Time" Dr. of Chemical Sciences Stanislava Gorjanović, Councilor of the Movement for a Healthy Pazova. "And as of 2020, we do not have a valid Waste Management Plan, nor was the previous one implemented"
Ecology
Serbia is among the countries where household waste is sorted the least
As many as 68 percent of households in Serbia do not sort waste before disposing of it. Globally, plastic and food waste are the materials that people throw away the most
Landfill
100.000 tons more waste than the available capacity arrives in Vinča, more and more garbage from Belgrade
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
Environment
In Serbia, there is no way to treat hazardous waste
The main problem in Serbia regarding the disposal of hazardous waste, international environmental and energy expert Dušan Vasiljević told Vreme, is that the entire system is incomplete and incomplete because there is no facility for the treatment of hazardous waste in Serbia. mostly exports that waste. What is not exported and cannot be treated is stored until further notice
Economy
EU support for the legalization of informal waste collection
Eco cooperative legalized the employment relationship of informal waste collectors and received the support of the initiative "EU for the Green Agenda in Serbia" for this idea. With the money received, together with their own capital, they bought recycling machines
Ecology
Pacific: A large island of garbage gives birth to a new ecosystem
In symbiosis with plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, new communities of species that normally live only in coastal conditions have been created