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Wide of Serbian police rescue team navigating on the river Juzna Morava and getting into pile of plastic bottles2. Various of rescue team paddling through bottles3. Team carrying boat over logs4....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eVranje - 10 May 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Serbian police rescue team navigating on the river Juzna Morava and getting into pile of plastic bottles\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of rescue team paddling through bottles\u003cbr/\u003e3. Team carrying boat over logs\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various rubbish in water \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of rescue team paddling on river\u003cbr/\u003eBelgrade - 22 May 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of former Serbian government environment minister Andjelka Mihajlov in her office \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Andjelka Mihajlov, Former Serbian government environment minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There have been some improvements. We have been worse. However, we are far away from fantastic. The country is at the crossroads and our steps can take us one way the other.\"\u003cbr/\u003eVinca - 24 May 2013\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan of trucks emptying waste into piles at rubbish dump \u003cbr/\u003e9. Truck unloading garbage, Roma people collecting plastic bottles\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of Roma people collecting plastic\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of garbage truck unloading rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of Roma people collecting rubbish\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of Roma people putting rubbish into bags\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of seagulls flying over dump\u003cbr/\u003eBelgrade - 29 May 2013 \u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of director of the Agency for Environmental Protection Filip Radovic in office \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Filip Radovic, Director of the Agency for Environmental Protection:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Serbia, of course, is doing its best, within capacity. We are trying to keep up as much as we can. I believe there is a progress and that we will continue with that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. People walking on streets of Belgrade \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Voxpop, Jelena Obradovic, Belgrade resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that nobody really cares about ecology or anything else.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Obradovic walking away\u003cbr/\u003eObrenovac - 28 May 2013\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of Nikola Tesla power plant \u003cbr/\u003e21. Chimneys of the power plant\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of coal and crane\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of filters on power plant \u003cbr/\u003e24. Filter, tilt to top of chimney \u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up of chimney with smoke coming out\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milan Petkovic, Deputy manager of power plant :\u003cbr/\u003e\"During the winter I think our residents could see the effects from everything that has been done here. Now we have white snow that remains for a whole month and this was not the case in the past.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Various of fields of ash being wet with sprinklers \u003cbr/\u003eVranje - 10 May 2013\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of river Juzna Morava \u003cbr/\u003e29. Rubbish hanging in trees.\u003cbr/\u003e30. Various of rubbish in river\u003cbr/\u003eSerbia is struggling to cope with its waste.\u003cbr/\u003eMilk is tainted, food is full with chemicals, the air is polluted and the rivers are choked up with rubbish.\u003cbr/\u003eMeasures are being taken but ahead of Serbia's anticipated acceptance into the EU, is it  a case of too little too late ?\u003cbr/\u003eThe sheer scale of the problem is staggering.\u003cbr/\u003eHere a police rescue team navigate the river Juzna Morava, 350 kilometres south of the capital Belgrade.\u003cbr/\u003ePlastic bottles, bags, boxes, old tyres and other discarded waste are clogging up the river having been washed down stream from nearby garbage dumps. \u003cbr/\u003eHuge piles of rubbish block the flow of the river. Little wonder the team hit a huge pile of plastic bottles. Despite paddling hard to cut a swathe through the debris the team is forced to get out and carry their boat over the bottles.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is just one symptom of a country struggling to cope with its waste.\u003cbr/\u003eSerbia, like much of the Balkans, neglected its natural environment during the conflicts of the 1990s.\u003cbr/\u003eThe country has allowed problems such as waste disposal and air pollution from old factories to accumulate over the years. \u003cbr/\u003eWith the region now heading toward integration into the European Union, it is now trying to tackle its problems.\u003cbr/\u003eSerbia hopes to be admitted into the EU in 2014.\u003cbr/\u003eAndjelka Mihajlov is a former Serbian government environment minister who now runs a non-government organisation.\u003cbr/\u003eShe says the country must work hard to make the environmental problems better.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There have been some improvements. We have been worse. However, we are far away from fantastic. The country is at the crossroads and our steps can take us one way the other.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSerbia, a country of more than seven million people, is working to track the flow of waste in an effort to work out what goes where, according to the Agency for Environmental Protection.\u003cbr/\u003eBut, only a quarter of the dumps have been built in accordance with EU standards, while the rest are the so-called \"wild dumps\" which don't have the infrastructure to drain waste waters or gases which then go on to damage the environment. \u003cbr/\u003eAt one of the dumps in the town of Vinca dozens of people, many of them from the Roma minority, have been employed to sort the rubbish for recycling.\u003cbr/\u003eFilip Radovic is the director of the Agency for Environmental Protection.\u003cbr/\u003eHe insists Serbia is within eastern Europe's average as far as pollution of waters, air and land is concerned.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd, he says, they are trying to improve.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Serbia, of course, is doing its best, within capacity. We are trying to keep up as much as we can. I believe there is a progress and that we will continue with that.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut yet no Serbian cities, including the capital of Belgrade with its two million inhabitants, have set up filters for waste water, which are being dumped straight into waterways. \u003cbr/\u003eIn its 2012 report about Serbia's advance in implementing EU standards, the European Commission said, \"some progress has been achieved in the area of the environment.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBut it warned that \"significant further efforts are needed in order to implement the national legislation, especially in the areas of water management, industrial pollution control and risk management, nature protection and air quality.\" \u003cbr/\u003eWhile Serbia's authorities have formally made it their goal to honour EU standards, in reality the country often had problems living up to them. \u003cbr/\u003eEarlier this year, reports that milk is contaminated with aflatoxins, a fungus linked to mildewed cattle feed that can cause cancer if consumed in high doses,  caused panic and a drop in purchases of dairy products.\u003cbr/\u003eIn response, the Serbian government upped the allowed levels of aflatoxins, as officials explained that Serbia simply does not have the capacity to honour the EU rules yet. \u003cbr/\u003eExperts have warned of poor control of the chemical treatment of fruit and vegetables and have advised citizens to keep fresh food in warm water before consumption. \u003cbr/\u003eBelgrade resident Jelena Obradovic says she thinks ordinary people are not interested in the waste management. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that nobody really cares about ecology or anything else.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe EU in the past ten years has donated some 250-300 million euros in a number of environment-related projects. \u003cbr/\u003eThese include the building of waste dumps and 80-million euro projects in Serbia's biggest power plant the Nikola Tesla power station outside Belgrade, where new filters and a system for ash disposal have improved air quality about ten fold.\u003cbr/\u003eDeputy manager of the Nikola Tesla power plant Milan Petkovic says following the upgrade locals have noticed changes in the area.\u003cbr/\u003e\"During the winter I think our residents could see the effects from everything that has been done here. 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