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Representatives of the World bank and Environmental Protection Agency visited Steel factory

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:07

    On 28/7/2010, the representatives of the World bank (Michael Feiss and Sanela Ljuca) and Environmental Protection Agency (director Daliborka Pejovic, chief inspector Vesna Zarubica and advisor Ilija Radovic) visited the landfill of the Steel factory and steel drive.


Within the project of the World bank ’’Managing and removal of industrial waste’’ identification of questionable locations so called ’’hot spots’’ in Montenegro was performed, for which detail monitoring and the sanation of contaminated locations should be conducted. In that sense, landfill of the Steel factory which is 3 km from the factory was recognized, on location Konjev do.  Mentioned landfill hasn’t been performed in accordance with the standards, and scoria form electro arc aggregates of Steel factory drive, steel waste form the process of rolling, waste of fireproof material and slag from the process of coal burning. Waste has been disposed without selection and treatment on this location for 55 years. The assessment is that on this location of unconditional landfill for solid waste 2 000 000 t of industrial waste is there, which became, over time, because of selected storage and because the impact of atmosphere is mixed and homogenized, hazardous pollutant of surface waters, air and ground.


Projects with an aim of landfill sanation, categorization of materials, with the possibility of using certain ingredient as secondary raw materials, are necessary having in mind the condition of the landfill and its negative environmental impact.
In the previous period, Steel factory has intensive negotiations with professional companies which install the equipment for the treatment of solid waste metarials (slag) from the production process, with an aim of searching for possibilities to make usefull construction material by the treatment of this type of waste.
It is important to mention that intensive assembly works on new electro arc stove with following systems for the preparation of cooling water and dedusting (primary and secondary) are in progress in the Steel factory.