The Director of the Center for Climate Change, Natural Resources and Energy of the University of Donja Gorica, Ivana Vojinović, participated in the IV International Polieco Forum on Waste Economy “The Waste Game”, which was held in Italy.
Ivana Vojinović spoke on the subject of plastic waste and pointed out that the EU has banned the use of single-use plastics from 2021 and that the use of other plastic products “for which there is no green alternative” should be reduced by 25% in to each state by 2025.
Plastic waste accounts for 70% of total marine waste.
Waste management infrastructure should be developed to avoid mismanagement of discarded plastics.
Current markets for secondary plastics do not function as well as they could, so Vojinović pointed out that new price incentives, technical possibilities and quality of secondary materials are needed.
The first step would be to increase the cost of landfilling plastic compared to the cost of managing plastic environmentally for the rest of its life cycle.
Achieving the goals defined in the European Strategy for Plastics in the Circular Economy requires significant investments, which are estimated between 8.4 and 16.6 billion euros.
