Supporting the national solid waste program in Serbia

ongoing

The program, co-financed by the EBRD, will develop and upgrade solid waste management infrastructure and strengthen stakeholder involvement for better waste management services. The program will include a maximum of eight sub-projects (covering about 1/3 of the country’s municipalities), of different maturity (pre-feasibility stage to equipment design stage). For each sub-project, an integrated approach to the sector will be developed, including all stages of solid waste management: collection (bins, containers, vehicles), implementation of primary and secondary sorting systems, transport, disposal of so-called ‘‘final’’ waste, valorization (waste recycling, energy recovery from biogas produced at landfill sites).The Ministry of Finance, representing the Republic of Serbia as a borrower, will be the signatory of the credit agreement. The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MoEP), which is responsible for the strategic and operational management of environmental and climate issues, will act as project manager for the program through a Project Implementation Unit set up within the Ministry’s Waste Management Department.