ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SITUATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PRILEP AND THE STRATEGIC APPROACH TO THE RESOLUTION OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS

A large part of the processes and products that are connected with the modern way of life in the Municipality of Prilep have negative effects on the environment.Among the significant consequences are also the rising costs for disposing of the excessive quantities of solid waste.In the past period, the bad practices of solid waste management led to degradation of the ecological systems, and as well to losing the precious natural resources and creation of potential health risks.The biggest part of the communal solid waste and other types of waste that are collected, have been disposed without any whatsoever pre-treatment on the municipality landfill Alinci or on the illegal landfills.According to the data from LEAP, there is a large number of illegal landfills created by the population which are not scoped within the services of the solid waste disposal.In order to reduce the quantity of the solid waste, the one which has to be deposited and/or in order, at least, the harmful influence of the solid waste on the environment to be reduced (for instance: emission of the gases created by the decomposition of the solid waste, extracted water and similar), the modern solid waste treatment systems scope different technologies for processing and exploiting of the solid waste.The choice of the technological procedure for solid waste processing has to be based on analyses of profitability and consideration of the measures of solid waste management in accordance with the best available technology, which does not require very high costs.According to the present situation in the Municipality of Prilep, modern technologies for processing of solid waste, which is created in enormously big quantities, are not applied.