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International partner
Municipality of Cërrik
Cërrik is a small town in central Albania with around 27,500 inhabitants. In Cërrik, responsibility for waste management lies with a public services department of the city administration. Cërrik already operates the first municipally operated composting plant in Albania, which employs around 6 people. The disposal area covers an area of 173.6 km².
Lead partner
Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck
Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck (EBL) is the municipal environmental service provider in the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The disposal area covers an area of 214.1 km². Around 650 employees ensure that wastewater is cleaned, that waste is disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner and that streets and squares are clean for around 217,000 residents. In the area of waste disposal, EBL has a mechanical-biological waste treatment plant for the processing and recycling of residual and organic waste and for the production of biogas; a biomass plant for the processing of organic waste and green waste into compost; a landfill site for the storage of untreated waste and for the production of landfill gas as well as three recycling centres.
The project
Cërrik already operates the first municipally run composting plant in Albania, which is to be operated and expanded more effectively with the help of Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck. The partnership will focus on optimising the process and the quality of the compost product.
As Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck has a high level of expertise in this area, support is to be provided within the partnership.
Features
There are good reasons for operating a composting plant:
- Waste quantities in landfills can be reduced;
- Compost produced from green waste can be a valuable fertiliser that increases the fertility and water retention capacity of the soil;
- Compost can replace peat and thus reduce the degradation of peatlands, which releases a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere after drainage;
- Composting prevents the uncontrolled decomposition of green waste, which produces methane, a gas that is very harmful to the climate, and releases nitrogen that is valuable for plants.
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Last Update: January 2024
