Unfortunately, a pointless meeting of the Municipal Council of Sofia was held today, where the topic of waste was discussed for more than nine hours. The goal was to hear from the relevant ministers of the environment and health, but they did not come. The state is doing nothing to stop illegal dumping, it is not doing much to increase separate collection. This was stated by the Deputy Mayor for Ecology in Sofia, Nadezhda Bobcheva, in the program “Face to Face” on bTV.
“They must do their job and fine them, if they have to revoke licenses. There are 280 illegal landfills in the Sofia region. "The RIEW is being used as a truncheon against us, instead of dealing with illegal dumps," she specified.
Most inspections say that there are no problems, only unimportant things that we need to eliminate. There is no problem with Sofia's garbage. Garbage is an eternal gum, where there are endless interests and money, it became clear from the words of the deputy mayor for ecology in Sofia.
We have stopped endless schemes. In the current contracts that we have inherited, they are paid per ton, explained Bobcheva. There are cases in which the waste is mixed with stones or wetted to make it weigh more, she revealed.
The problem with this plant is that it was not built in such a way that it had storage facilities where the already produced RDF could be accumulated. We put them in the plant itself and transport them. Last year we built an installation where we separate recyclable materials. Our goal is to remove as much waste as possible and process less - this would save us money. The plant is the last phase of the entire waste management system in Sofia. The more waste there is in the colored containers, the less there will be in the gray ones and money will be saved, explained Nadezhda Bobcheva.