The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabic, who visited the works on the construction of the waste processing plant in Vinca today, stated that the plant, which will be completed in 2022, announces much greater attention and investments in environmental protection in the coming period.
Brnabic visited the construction of the plant in the company of the Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesic, the Executive Director of “Beo Cista Energija”, Filip Til, as well as representatives of financial institutions that allocated funds for the construction of the plant.
The Prime Minister pointed out that the construction of the plant in Vinca is one of the most important projects in the field of environmental protection, not only in Belgrade but in the whole of Serbia, above all because the decades-long problem of solid waste disposal in Belgrade improved quality of life of citizens.
She added that the project will announce much larger investments in environmental protection, for which, as she says, Serbia is very late, but it has also shown readiness to fight these problems by establishing the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Brnabic stated that in parallel with that project, projects on wastewater treatment are being worked on in the country.
In addition, she added, within the “Serbia 2025” program, the state will allocate one billion euros for projects in the field of environmental protection.
The project of building a waste processing plant in Vinca has a model of public-private partnership, said Brnabic and added that this model should be used much more in the future.
“This project is also a good example of how we can encourage private companies to work with the state and local self-government, in order to have a greater impact on the social community in a short period of time,” said Ana Brnabic.
She added that this project is also important for the growth of GDP and that the works on it did not stop even during the Covid-19 crisis.
The project is worth 370 million euros and currently more than 300 workers are engaged in it, the Prime Minister added, Novosti reports.
