Waste

Waste recycling

02.April 2026 MLJ

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

26.March 2026. MLJ

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

17.March 2026. MLJ

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

27.February 2026. MLJ

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

24.February 2026. MLJ

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?

Wild landfill Smederevska Palanka, flea market

Smederevo Palanka

20.February 2026. Katarina Stevanović

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

02.October 2025. IN THE

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

25.May 2025. Tijana Stanic

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

19.May 2025. B. B.

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

28.April 2025 S.Ć.

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

31.October 2024. Sanja Zrnić

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

23.October 2024. SZ

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

07.October 2024. SZ

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

02.October 2024. Gordana Momčilović Ilić

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"

Almost twice as much waste arrives in Vinč than the available capacity

Ecology

18.September 2024. B. B.

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

28.May 2024. Milica Srejić

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

30.March 2024. Milica Srejić

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

28.July 2023 Sonja Ciric

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

19.April 2023 Z.S.

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