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Slovakia: stopping incinerators, building zero waste alternatives

Eight planned incinerators, and the communities fighting them Slovakia has eight planned waste incinerators, but the zero waste movement scored two significant victories in 2024: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) proceedings were cancelled for two incinerators in Šaľa and Selice (each with a 100,000-tonne annual capacity) and for two chemical recycling facilities in Nováky and Liptovský Mikuláš. Friends of the Earth Slovakia (Priatelia Zeme: SPZ) ran the "Stop Incinerators" campaign, working closely with affected municipalities and local communities. What the campaign involves - Close collaboration with municipalities directly affected by proposed incinerator siting - Legal intervention in EIA processes to block or delay construction approvals - Public education showing that zero waste systems (composting, PAYT, source separation) produce better outcomes than incineration at lower community cost - Political advocacy for Slovakia's national waste strategy to prioritise prevention over burning How to engage - Follow Friends of the Earth Slovakia (Priatelia Zeme: SPZ) for updates on active EIA challenges - Contact your municipal council to ask whether your community is in the path of a proposed incinerator - Share Partizánske's, Košeca's, and Úľany nad Žitavou's results as evidence that source separation and PAYT outperform incineration economically Why it matters Every incinerator built commits a municipality to decades of high-volume waste generation. Slovakia's four cancelled EIAs demonstrate that organised civic advocacy can interrupt the infrastructure pipeline, and that presenting real-world zero waste data to decision-makers works.
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