‘Shady’ incinerators raise environmental, increased waste management cost concerns

TIRANA, May 24 – The controversial waste-to-energy incinerators that Albania is building under public private partnerships risk the livelihoods of local farmers, increase waste management costs and run counter to EU principles that promote recycling, says the Voice of America in the local Albanian service in an in-depth article examining Albania’s waste incineration projects. A farmer in the village of Verri in the southwestern region of Fier, where a waste-to-energy incinerator is being built only about 1 km from his tomato and melon farm, says the incinerator will destroy his greenhouse investment producing about 100 metric tons a year and…