SC Waste Management Limited Secure Contract for Serbian Prisons Project
25/09/2011
SC Waste Management Limited secured 3rd contract with WYG International in regard to the Western Balkans Infrastructure Project Facility. This time the contract relates to the provision of an Environment Statement for two new prison developments in the town of Pancevo and the city of Kragujevac, Serbia.
Scott Crossett will provide the environment statements for each site in line with the requirements for all Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) investment funding. The statement scopes are agreed with the CEB in advance and then the issues to be addressed are investigated and an environment statement produced for each development site.
The work will be carried out over a three week period and will be part of an overall feasibility study for the two site developments.
This was also another opportunity to meet and work with Mr Alex Talmon L'armee from the WB-IPF I. Alex was the project manager of the prison project in Naklo, BiH and we worked well together on that project where the project team leader was our very good friend and respected colleague Jorgen Engel.
Scott will be assisted in the project by Serbian environment expert Biljana Andric. Biljana has provided a wealth of local data on the environmental situation at both sites and this is an excellent start to the investigative process.
The development sites are currently adjacent to existing prisons although the land itself is currently being used as prison farmland.
These environmental assessment projects are part of the CEB's on-going commitment to high standards of ethical investment and sustainable development in all of its investment projects.
The two prisons are located in different parts of Serbia but both have agricultural holdings adjacent to them and the prisoners are active, particularly at Pancevo the larger holding, in producing a wide range of products in an effort to make the prisons as self-sufficient as possible in terms of food production.
Scott spent time at Pancevo with Mr Dejan Vesovic,Economic director and an assistant from the Ministry of Justice, Bojana, seeing all that the prison had to offer in terms of self-sustainability and waste management where recycling is carried out for metal, glass, cardboard and plastics.
Arable crops are also important and both fruit and vegetables are grown at the farm.
The Kragujevac prison has a slightly smaller farm and Scott visited that site with Mr Aleksandar Drobnjak, Ministerial Adviser at the Ministry of Justice. We were met at the prison by Prison Governor who welcomed the CEB initiative and we were shown round the prison and the new site by the chief of the prison guards.
The prison are actively involved in recycling of Cardboard, Plastics, Metal Tins and Food Waste
The project works are expected to be completed early in October in line with the submission of the final draft of the overall feasibility study for each of the proposed new prison developments.