Integrated Urban Waste Management (Case study, Vlora Municipality)

Amali Çipi – Business Department, Economy Faculty, University “Ismail Qemali” of Vlora, Albania

Abstract: Urban waste management is the main and most problematic part of the cleaning service, which has become one of the sharpest problems to be addressed by local government bodies in Albania (Kodra & Milios, 2013). Pop­ulation growth, tourism development, business development such as restau­rants, markets, bars, economic growth and improvement of living standards have increased consumption rates and consequently the rate and volume of urban waste generation. Inadequate waste management has turned it into a source of environmental pollution and disease. In Albania, a small part of the waste is recycled, a little is buried and in most cases, it is deposited in cer­tain landfills, which do not meet the appropriate engineering requirements for environmental protection and are subject to frequent fires. Burning urban waste or dumping it on the banks of rivers and streams has become the big­gest ‘gangrene’ of environmental pollution and results in a high level of air pollution, but also poisons the soil and the groundwater that flows near these landfills (Alcani & Dorri, 2013). The situation is further aggravated by the fact that hazardous waste from the industrial sector is dumped in the same places as urban waste and treated in the same way.

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“Agreement: Cleaning Service in Orikum Municipality”, Orikum Municipality – “Baitel” Ltd, October 16, 2013.

“Agreement: Cleaning service in the Orikum Administrative Unit”, Vlora Municipality – “Bait­el” Ltd., 06.12.2018, no. 10516.

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“Agreement: Cleaning service, Vlora Municipality”, Vlora Municipality – “DUKA” Ltd., 2018.

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