Open AccessWASTE MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MUNICIPAL COMMUNAL WASTE
Author(s) -
Marina Grubor,
Oliver Dimitijević,
Miodrag Šmelcerović
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2545-4439
pISSN - 1857-923X
DOI - 10.35120/kij3103657g
Subject(s) - european union , work (physics) , context (archaeology) , position (finance) , process (computing) , business , environmental economics , environmental planning , environmental resource management , engineering , economic policy , economics , environmental science , computer science , geography , finance , mechanical engineering , archaeology , operating system
The key goal of this work is to analyze the process of municipal waste recycling in the European Union and in Serbia, as well as to identify the economic instruments which are missing in this field. The work is intending to answer to the several related questions: first, the economic basis of recycling, that is to establish a general framework in which this process can fulfill its economic viability; second, to analyze the present state, effects and problems in which recycling operations are performing in the European Union and the position of Serbia in this context; thirdly, to establish economic instruments and measures to promote recycling of municipal waste in Serbia. The paper proposes a set of economic instruments in the field ofresolving these issues are at the basis ofstandards established in the European Union.