An ultramodern waste treatment plant is ready to become operational in the city of Fier, ultimately putting an end to burning of tonnes of rubbish at landfills in the southern city, becoming a hotbed of environmental carcinogens. Over decades, the wastes were burned in whole region of Fier, triggering extreme air and environmental pollution.

Prime Minister Edi Rama visited the waste processing plant in Fier, a facility build to deliver highest waste treatment technology standards and equipment allowing for a series of waste processing processes.

“Installation of the waste treatment plant has fully completed. We are now installing specific equipment for certain treatment processes. The plant is considered an engineering feat over the past three years and it has a processing capacity of 250 up to 280 metric tonnes in 24 hours. This is the dumpsite where the waste will be differentiated manually. The work will be organized in three-shifts, 24 hour a day and we plan to employ a staff of 110 employees,” the company representative said, adding that leading European companies have been hired to build the plant. Next to the waste disposal pit has been installed the furnace, built by one of the leading Italian companies in the furnace construction and installation.

The government head Edi Rama hailed the waste treatment plant in Fier as a huge technological transformation and environmental solution, which not only protects nature, but also positively transforms it. “This is a tremendous technological transformation and significant environmental relief. Unfortunately a series of misunderstandings, fake news, speculations and defamations have marred the project, just like it has been the case with many good works being done in Albania. However, the facility speaks for itself, just like the realities in Tirana, Elbasan, and Durres speak for themselves thanks to such projects. The advantages of this technology as compared to the landfills are great, because a landfill includes only deposition of the waste and therefore the landfill area would keep expanding constantly, while such a plant does not take up land, nature, and on the contrary, it transforms nature,” the Premier said.

The waste treatment plant in Fier is scheduled to become fully operational by end of April once the technical inspection of specific equipment completes.