Waste - Outlook 2020 (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)

Implementation of integrated, financially sustainable and environmentally acceptable waste management is based on several strategic principles:

• the principle of solving the waste problem at the source of its generation;

• separation of hazardous from non-hazardous waste streams at source;

• reuse of valuable ingredients of the waste;

• establishment of a rational network of waste treatment and disposal facilities;

• rremediation of contaminated sites – hot-spots, mainly industrial contaminated sites and non-compliant municipal and industrial landfills;   

• waste, as a substitute for non-renewable natural resources, should contribute to GHG emission reductions.