This is excellent news and very welcomed here in Bulgaria. Alas though it is just a small necessity in what for Bulgaria must be a major task trying to address an unending nightmare.

When a friend of mine from Sofia alerted me to the fact that the City had very little manoeuvrability in managing its budget and that there were unending questions asked about its (and the Country's) backlog of needs necessary to correct past infrastructure and environmental conditions. Much of this seems to be related to the management and treatment of its wastes. We wondered [...]

Read the full comment whether any consideration in this area had been included in this 'infrastructure' budget! Alas both she Aleya and I concluded that we doubted it, for this is seen as Environmental needs alone and its monies are derived from a different pot of money. It is though a major need just the same and it needs tackling urgently.

So I wondered Mr Editor and Reporters what was being done here? Probably nothing might I state, for that is certain as my friend Aleya points out, the interest is in the grander schemes, and the Government seems to be following that route here!

Perhaps therefore in this season of good news in the run up to Christmas I might be allowed to alert you to some news from elsewhere where various countries in the EU are embarking on providing new facilities to handle the enormity of their wastes by building waste to ethanol plants - and thus avoid the horrendously expensive and environmentally unsatisfactory option of incineration that is so hated by all. And why should they opt for this? Well simply put it is for truly valid reasons.

They cost a mere fraction of these hated incineration projects and deliver the biofuel ethanol which can be readily used and blended with gasoline and used in cars and other transport systems.

This is a double benefit which has caught on in many places. Such plants are being built for Holland England Viet Nam the USA in Kentucky Vermont and Hawaii and now even proposed for India and SE Asia and elsewhere.

So lets hear it for Bulgaria that in this wake up call to address the New Environmental World that because it is possible to build one of these plants to meet existing waste treatment needs here also. And further it can be Green. The notion that a Green Project should cost the earth is unfounded. This is a solution therefore which is just what Sofia and Bulgaria needs and I implore you to consider this here!

This is excellent news and very welcomed here in Bulgaria. Alas though it is just a small necessity in what for Bulgaria must be a major task trying to address an unending nightmare.

When a friend of mine from Sofia alerted me to the fact that the City had very little manoeuvrability in managing its budget and that there were unending questions asked about its (and the Country's) backlog of needs necessary to correct past infrastructure and environmental conditions. Much of this seems to be related to the management and treatment of its wastes. We wondered [...]

Read the full comment whether any consideration in this area had been included in this 'infrastructure' budget! Alas both she Aleya and I concluded that we doubted it, for this is seen as Environmental needs alone and its monies are derived from a different pot of money. It is though a major need just the same and it needs tackling urgently.

So I wondered Mr Editor and Reporters what was being done here? Probably nothing might I state, for that is certain as my friend Aleya points out, the interest is in the grander schemes, and the Government seems to be following that route here!

Perhaps therefore in this season of good news in the run up to Christmas I might be allowed to alert you to some news from elsewhere where various countries in the EU are embarking on providing new facilities to handle the enormity of their wastes by building waste to ethanol plants - and thus avoid the horrendously expensive and environmentally unsatisfactory option of incineration that is so hated by all. And why should they opt for this? Well simply put it is for truly valid reasons.

They cost a mere fraction of these hated incineration projects and deliver the biofuel ethanol which can be readily used and blended with gasoline and used in cars and other transport systems.

This is a double benefit which has caught on in many places. Such plants are being built for Holland England Viet Nam the USA in Kentucky Vermont and Hawaii and now even proposed for India and SE Asia and elsewhere.

So lets hear it for Bulgaria that in this wake up call to address the New Environmental World that because it is possible to build one of these plants to meet existing waste treatment needs here also. And further it can be Green. The notion that a Green Project should cost the earth is unfounded. This is a solution therefore which is just what Sofia and Bulgaria needs and I implore you to consider this here!