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Analysis: The trash never left

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By SIDONJA MANUSHI The law on integrated waste management – a concern of civil society, which received past media attention and criticism from the ranks of Albanian intellectuals and activists – is likely to make a return to parliament. The law on integrated waste management is a fancy name that was given to Albania’s long history of debate concerning waste import. The previous Socialist government, back in 2004, had a plan to import tons of garbage from Italy to process and recycle, but the initiative was dropped because of combined protests from business owners and civil society groups. In 2011,…

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