Sofia's waste would most likely be stored temporarily in the Bulgarian town of Gorni Bogrov, after the quota for the wast sites in Tsalapitsa and Karlovo have been used up.

This was suggested by the lack of clear statements by deputy mayor Mariya Boyadjiiska and Deputy Ecology Minister Chavdar Georgiev, Dnevnik daily said.

After yet another working meeting between the municipality and the Environment and Water Affairs Ministry (MOEW), the two, again, did not give clear answers about how the problem with Sofia's waste would be solved, Dnevnik said.

The mayor of Karlovo, Naiden Naidenov, told Focus news agency that the quota would be used up in 7 or 8 days and would not be increased. "After the 80 tons of waste will have been dumped, not a single gram will be allowed on the Karlovo waste site," Naidenov said.
In Tsalapitsa, another 5 tons could be stored, Boydjiiska said. She refused to indicate where the trucks with waste would be sent after that.

The new municipal council of Sofia would only start work on November 19, when the quotas in both Plovdiv and Karlovo would have been used up, making negotiations for continuation of current contracts impossible, Boyadjieva said.
According to her, the only site that was up to legal requirements, was the site at Gorni Bogrov. The terrain is about 100 000 sq m, of which about 20 000 have been prepared for waste storage. Total storage capacity was 400 000 bales.
Both Boydjiiska and Georgiev answered with silence when asked whether Sofia's waste would be stored there, Dnevnik said.

Mid October, Sofia's municipality announced there would be two variants to deal with the situation. A continuation of contracts with the two regional depots Plovdiv and Karlovo, and the opening of a new waste site in Souhodol. Georgiev said it was possible to use the Souhodol site, but not immediately because the procedure to put it back into work was a long one. Another variant would be to use a regional depot, for example the Pernik site, until the new waste processing plant would be opened in 2011.

Georgiev said Government intended to avoid another waste crisis in Sofia.

Neither the municipality, nor the ministry had an official answer to the penalty procedure that the European Commission started over the long-drawn waste problem.