Municipal Solid Waste Management Sector Review : Strategic Directions and Investment Planning up to 2025 - Part A : Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina

This report includes an assessment of the current municipal solid waste situation in BiH including investments and actions needed for improvement. For the first time special attention was paid to the cost aspects also taking into account the impact of EU accession requirements on the costs. Many of the most recent EU member states have undergone the same process as now experienced by BiH such as the need to improve the environmental conditions for waste disposal, improvement of the waste collection coverage, introduction of waste separation and recycling and consequently the resulting cost increases. The study reveals that actual costs are rather high which might indicate inefficiency but at the same time it appears that municipalities don’t have a clear cost allocation system for solid waste services (waste collection and disposal) as they carry out also other services such as street cleaning, snow cleaning, and the like. For the first time in BiH, this report presents a financial assessment of current waste management costs, and calculations on the financial impacts of harmonisation with EU legislation and shifting up in the waste hierarchy.