Environmental specialists have started sounding alarm bells and the Environment Ministry also admits that the situation in the waste recycling sector is dramatic.
The ministry gives a lot of reasons to explain why not a single municipality has managed to build biodegradable waste recycling centers despite hundreds of millions of litas in EU aid having been earmarked for this purpose.
Environment Minister Valentinas Mazuronis has warned that if regional waste management centers (RWMC) fail to use the 450 million litas provided by the EU, the country will not only have to return the money, but it may face fines as well. The EU has not given any official warnings to Lithuania yet.
"The situation is very serious. It will become tragic unless the RWMC do the necessary work within the next several months," he said.
