In Ljubljana, we are planning to build a state-of-the-art facility for energy utilization of waste.

 During construction, we will take into account the strictest criteria for the protection of human health and the environment. For operation, we will use only domestic combustible fractions from municipal waste, which are no longer suitable for material utilization or recycling and are currently exported for incineration abroad.
The incinerator is the most economical and environmentally acceptable solution for our municipal waste, which we currently export. Among the highlighted advantages are:

• lower waste disposal costs,
• reduced heating prices with more stable price control,
• decreased carbon footprint,
• greater self-sufficiency in energy resources,
• increased share of high-efficiency cogeneration of heat and electricity.

TEO Ljubljana will be designed as a new, independent facility for the simultaneous production of heat and electricity, built using the best available techniques (BAT), with high energy efficiency and taking into account all the strictest criteria and standards for the protection of the environment and human health.

What are we currently doing with combustible fractions from waste?

At present, Slovenia annually exports as much as 75% of the residue after processing municipal waste abroad, mainly to Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands, with plans to expand exports to Greece. In all these countries, Slovenian combustible fractions are used primarily for the production of heat and electricity. According to publicly available data, in 2021, we transported 173,000 tons of non-recyclable waste, an average of 420 kilometres, for which we needed as many as 8,600 trucks. In addition to the very high transportation costs, we are also facing pressing problems, such as the occasional closure of foreign markets and thus the border for Slovenian waste, which means the accumulation of waste at home, and thus a higher risk of increasingly frequent fires due to spontaneous combustion of waste in landfills.