Municipal waste management in the Western Balkan countries — European Environment Agency

This briefing builds to a large extent on the municipal waste management country profiles, developed in close cooperation with the authorities of the Western Balkan countries. The project was funded by the EU’s Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II).

Municipal waste: facts and figures

Since 2015, municipal waste generation per capita has increased in Kosovo (under UN Security Council Resolution 1244/99), North Macedonia and Serbia, remained rather stable in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Montenegro, and decreased in Albania (where the decreasing trend is the result of improving data quality rather than decreasing…