A new tyre recycling facility is scheduled for Sarajevo
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Minister of Communal Economy, Infrastructure, Spatial Planning, Construction and Environmental Protection Almir Becarevic presented a permit for waste management for the processing and recycling of old waste tires this week to Sarajevo Zlatko Sejmenovic, the director of NEGRO CROWN d.o.o.
This puts NEGRO Crown in the position to open a tyre recycling facility in the Sarajevo Canton.
Minister Almir Becarevic praised the initiative and the investment of about 800.000 BAM in the waste recycling system.
Through this project in Sarajevo, 10 new jobs will be created and the opportunity the legitimate disposal of old tyres.
The Law on Waste Management and the Rulebook on Waste Tyre Management prescribe that old tyres must be recycled and disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner, according to National and EU regulations. Contrary to a report in a Bosnian paper, this will not be the first tyre recycling centre in Sarajevo, as Eco & Tyres Group already recycle earthmover tyres at the only such site, they claim, in the Balkans.