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In Serbia it has been shown that the ecological awareness of the population has been growing in recent times. Especially in the last ten years, when various transformations in the area of governance and competencies in the republic began to acquire conditions for the implementation of projects in the field of waste management. First of all, it refers to the preparation of the necessary technical conditions for establishing a systemic solution of waste management problems and the use of municipal waste in order to obtain energy. This paper deals with the thermal treatment of municipal waste in the territory of the city of Niš. A techno-economic analysis of the plant has been made, in which certain waste types generated on the territory of the city are treated, while the heat energy is sold. Economic analysis examined the baseline scenario and three possible scenarios of financing the plant. Taking into account the results of the analysis, the high investment costs of the premises limit the possibility of achieving positive effects if the financing of the factory is assumed solely on the basis of the sale of products and charging of the waste treatment fee. However, by involving a third party in the process of financing the plant, it is possible to achieve multiple effects. This implies the achievement of positive socio-ecological effects, as well as the economic ones. Also, the increase in the time period for which the analysis is carried out, as well as the possible increase in the waste treatment fee or the percentage of investments made by third parties, would lead to an additional increase in financial parameters, in this case NPV
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