REPUBLIC OF SERBIA PET DEPOSIT RECYCLINGSYSTEM – A MUST-WIN BATTLE!

Milan Počuča

Authors

Milan Počuča Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary Novi Sad

Keywords:

environment, PET packaging, packaging waste, recyclers, deposit system

Abstract

The following study analyzes the legal framework of the environmental conditions concerning the superintendence of Polyethylene terephthalate (commonly abbreviated PET) packaging in the European Union (EU) with an emphasis on the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Serbia is in the process of joining the EU; therefore, it has to evaluate and even more so implement adequate legal norms concerning PET packaging in order to meet EU waste management targets. Serbia's future policy has severe obstacles ahead of resolving these issues. Numerous unlicensed landfills, the unregulated management of waste sale with an inadequate number of licensed recyclers managed by the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency, are the key topics discussed in this study. PET packaging, which roughly represents 10% of total waste, moreover 30% of total waste by volume overlooking a thousand-year-long decay period, holds a fundamental issue in the following study. Examining the singularities of PET packaging with a focus on country legal framework together with the available data of the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency plus the confinements of the EU membership the study prescribes a solution of the current state within the Republic of Serbia with the preamble of a deposit system recycling in PET circuit packaging.

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