Implementation of innovative technologies pay-as-you-throw and autonomous composting units for biowaste management. scaling up the biowaste project in the municipality of probishtip, Republic of North Macedonia

Abstract

Municipal solid waste management is still one of the major environmental challenges at a national level, and although with national and regional waste plans in place, the Republic of North Macedonia with its eight regions has only one standard landfill active, and at least 54 non-standard municipal landfills and hundreds of dump sites and old landfills. In the light of the soon expected regional establishment of an integrated and self-sustainable waste management system in the eastern and north-eastern regions, to increase awareness by the local population and hospitality enterprises for source separation schemes of organic waste, as largest producers of organic waste, Goce Delcev & Hellenic Mediterranean Universities together with Municipality of Katerini, Municipality of Yermasoyia and Municipality of Probistip launched joint project co-funded by EU, Utilizing pay-as-you-throw Systems and Autonomous Composting Units for Biowastes Management in Touristic Areas (BIOWASTE). This paper aims to present the environmental benefits of the project implementation and scaling up process that was developed, aiming to expand the BIOWASTE project processes in the whole Municipality of Probishtip.