Work on 17.6 mln euro regional waste management system starts in northeast Bulgaria

The project includes construction of a regional waste treatment depot, a waste water treatment plant, an inert materials landfill, as well as an installation for composting green waste and recycling of construction waste, Varna municipality authorities said in a press release on Monday.

The depot will have a total area of 5,272 decares and an annual capacity of 401,944 tonnes of waste. It is planned for completion by the end of October 2015.

A total of 26.9 million levs were provided under the EU-funded operational programme Environment and the remaining 7.4 million levs were funded by the three municipalities.

Varna, Aksakovo and Beloslav are located on the Bulgarian north Black Sea coast.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)