Six municipalities in north Bačka to build joint landfill worth EUR 30m in Subotica

In about year and half, construction of a regional landfill, designed by European standards, will resolve the problems of waste disposal and illegal dumps in the region of north Bačka, in which 267,000 people live.

The project team of Novi Sad-based Hidrozavod presented the landfill project yesterday (May 10, 2010) in Subotica's City Hall. At the promotion of the project, which is also approved by the government audit committee, it is said that the future landfill will be definitely built in the location between settlements Orom and Bikovo, which offers larger capacity, better geological terms and higher profitability that the previously proposed location (next to former Azotara).

The regional landfill will cost about EUR 30m and its annual capacity will amount to 80,000 tons of waste, certain part of which will be recycled as semi-finished products, while organic waste will be processed through the composting process. Also, the project envisages construction of a collecting center for electronic and electric waste and a building waste processing unit, as well as the possibility of separation of methane. Special filters will be processing waste water, which will be released into a canal and the Krivaja river. Each of the municipalities will also have special transfer centers for the primary classification of materials, which will then be transported in large containers to the central landfill.

- However, once all the works are finished and the landfill is opened, the citizens of this part of Bačka will not be able to count with certainty on cheaper public utility services related to waste disposal. The benefits will be a clean environment, absence of illegal dumps and the landfill by European standards - said Andrea Kikić, CEO of company Regionalna Deponija (Regional Landfill).

- According to the project, the life of this landfill is about 40 years, but it can be about ten years longer if the landfill is used in the most favorable conditions - says Hidrozavod's CEO Stojan Sakulić.

According to its architects, the landfill will be maximally protected and isolated, so that only the treated waste water will be released into the environment, which means that the danger from any pollution is minimal.

The landfill will solve the problem of waste in Subotica and the municipalities of Bačka Topola, Kanjiža, Senta, Mali Iđoš and Čoka on long-term basis.