Waste Management Infrastructure
The once notorious Vinča landfill, with its landslides, fires and methane emissions (much more potent than carbon dioxide from a climate perspective) is undergoing a transformation that is reviving both the landscape and the lives of the nearby residents, and Serbia’s capital city.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and with little warning, municipalities suddenly faced unique waste management challenges: massive upticks in daily waste volumes combined with curtailed garbage collection and cutbacks in recycling. While workplace waste production fell at the pandemic’s height, household waste rose to a degree that offset the decrease in commercial waste. […]