Introducing Pay as You Throw System and Autonomous Composting Units for Biowaste Management in Municipality of Probistip

Hadzi-Nikolova, Marija and Dimov, Gorgi and Mirakovski, Dejan and Zendelska, Afrodita and Doneva, Nikolinka and Zlatkovski, Vasko and Maragkaki, Angeliki and Papadaki, Akrivi and Sabathianakis, G. and Manios, Thrassyvoulos and Poda, Katerina and Naskova, Ljubica and Misseris, Timos and Zapounidis, Kostas and Lazarov, Darko (2021) Introducing Pay as You Throw System and Autonomous Composting Units for Biowaste Management in Municipality of Probistip. In: Retaste: rethink food waste 2021, 6-8 May 2021, Athens, Greece.

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Abstract

Municipal Solid Waste management is still one of the major environmental challenges at
national level, and although with national and regional waste plans in place. Republic of
North Macedonia with its eight regions has only one regional landfill active, and at least
54 non-standard municipal landfills and hundreds dump sites and old landfills. And in the
light of soon expected regional establishment of an integrated and self-sustainable waste
management system in the eastern and north-eastern regions, in order 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 Probishtip, launched joint Project co-founded by EU,
"Utilizing Pay as You Throw Systems and Autonomous Composting Units for Boiwastes
Management in Touristic Areas". Annually, about 3300 t of MSW is generated in
Municipality of Probishtip, with estimated 45.3% organic waste, all together disposed at
a non-standard landfill just out of the city borders, and as soon as regional waste
management system kick-in this should be changed, affecting current practice and
costs. The Project includes transfer and application of innovative technologies Pay As You
Throw - PAYT system and Autonomous Composting Units - ACUs for biowaste
management in Municipalities of Katerini, Yermasoyia and Probishtip. PAYT system and
ACUs as inovative technologies for biowaste management involves source separation
schemes of organic waste in different bins (biowaste in 10 L bins and residual mixed
waste in 80 L coded bins). Two ACUs with 60 t/year capacity have been installed and commissioned, one for hospitality enterprises installed nearby City market and San Niko
Hotel and the other one in Kalnishte urban area aimed to serves 80 households included
in Project, for composting organic waste. For introducing "Pay As You Throw" system
specially designed weighing equipment built into the one waste collection truck owned by
PUC Nikola Karev and coded waste bins for hospitality enterprises and households have
been supplied. Participants training, data collection and analytical procedure are
currently ongoing and expected direct benefits including: reduction of waste quantities
that are landfilled, reduction of transportation cost for PUC, reduction of charges for
hospitality enterprises and households participating in separation scheme and reduction
of environmental pollution caused by landfill gas emissions and leachate, as much as
reaching the ambitious target of Waste Framework Directive (98/2008).

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Engineering and Technology > Environmental engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences
Depositing User:	Afrodita Zendelska
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2021 09:59
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2021 09:59
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/28403

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