ZAGREB MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR: AN UNSUITABLE QUICK-FIX FOR ZAGREB’S WASTE PROBLEMS
Publisher: CEE Bankwatch Network
Volume: 2 pages, pdf
Description:
The EBRD is considering financing a EUR 170 million, 385 000 tonnes per year municipal ‘waste-toenergy’ incinerator in Zagreb, Croatia, which would also burn sewage sludge from the city’s EBRDfinanced wastewater treatment plant. Local groups Green Action, SOS Gradec District and Resnik citizens’ initiative believe that the project is premature and dangerous on the following grounds: The City of Zagreb has made almost no effort to increase the low level of waste prevention and recycling, allocating only EUR 4.5 million for recycling vs. EUR 161.4 million for incineration in its waste management plan. Non-incineration options have barely been examined at all.