With the knowledge to the world of ecological development: Case of the 'Trepca' company, Kosovska Mitrovica

Abstract

The modern era, in which humanity has encountered, is characterized by the numerous events, global economy, new world market, global ecological crisis, and permanent changes in all segments of business: in science, technique, technology, organization, management, etc., where the central place belongs to a key resource, that is the to human resources from which everything starts and everything depends. Today, it is necessary to have the high quality human resources that can ensure the effective realization of business and environmental policy objectives and are adequately related to the rapid technological changes that are increasingly turbulent and the changes in ownership transformation in which the Serbian society is still. Through the economic activity, the globalization of the world society more and more finds its foothold in all other spheres of life and work of modern man. As one planetary process it brings numerous criteria, standards and rules in all spheres of which the great emphasis is on the protection of the working and living environment as an inalienable property of humans, related to the life, health biological and spiritual integrity, survival and development. Today, there are many efforts in the world in order to make ecological problems crucial in the international and national legislation of every single country, and become the social responsibility of every enterprise, educational system and moral code of every individual. The Serbian society has encountered the ecological disaster caused by the war events in this area, as well as the other ecological problems caused by numerous industries. The region of Kosovo and Metohija with accent on the Kosovska Mitrovica area is concerned with numerous industrial waste materials resulted from various processes in the 'Trepca' company. These materials, by their structure and method of disposal in the landfills, cause a great ecological problems and threats to the life and health of people, which will also be discussed in this paper.