ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SITUATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PRILEP
AND THE STRATEGIC APPROACH TO THE RESOLUTION OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
PROBLEMS
Natalija Aceska1, Svetlana Petrovska1, Havzi Memeti2
1CeProSARD Center for Promotion of Sustainable
Agricultural Practices and Rural Development,
2State University of Tetovo, Republic of Macedonia
naceska@gmail.com
A large part of the processes and products that are
connected with the modern way of life in the Municipality of Prilep
have negative effects on the environment. Among the significant
consequences are also the rising costs for disposing of the excessive
quantities of solid waste. In the past period, the bad practices of solid
waste management led to degradation of the ecological systems, and as
well to losing the precious natural resources and creation of potential health
risks. The biggest part of the communal solid waste and other types of
waste that are collected, have been disposed without any whatsoever
pre-treatment on the municipality landfill Alinci or on the illegal
landfills. According to the data from LEAP, there is a large number of
illegal landfills created by the population which are not scoped within
the services of the solid waste disposal. In order to reduce the quantity
of the solid waste, the one which has to be deposited and/or in order, at
least, the harmful influence of the solid waste on the environment to be
reduced (for instance: emission of the gases created by the decomposition
of the solid waste, extracted water and similar), the modern solid waste
treatment systems scope different technologies for processing and
exploiting of the solid waste. The choice of the technological procedure
for solid waste processing has to be based on analyses of profitability
and consideration of the measures of solid waste management in accordance
with the best available technology, which does not require very high
costs. According to the present situation in the Municipality of Prilep,
modern technologies for processing of solid waste, which is created in
enormously big quantities, are not applied.
Key words:
Prilep municipality, degradation of ecological systems, illegal
landfills, modern technologies
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