TRASH Talk
A Weekend Exploration of Prishtina's Waste
Takeaways
01Understand the complexity of the work that NGOs and public bodies do.
02Help us understand and focus on the most relevant issues.
03Enable the community to learn and assimilate new knowledge in the future.
The narrative backbone — who collects, who pays, who decides, and where the political friction lives.
COULD ADD field interviews + neighbourhood-level detail.
Every dated event from the first landfill plans through the 2027 law, in one chronology.
COULD ADD live entries as new events happen.
Tonnages, fees, budgets and rates — each tied to the source it came from.
COULD ADD monthly figures with auto-generated charts.
Clause-by-clause comparison of the old law and the incoming Integrated Waste law.
COULD ADD track amendments as the law moves.
The actors and the money, authority and oversight flows between them.
COULD ADD sub-actors + evidence on every edge.
Each policy lever as a card you can play against the model.
COULD ADD a runnable budget simulation.
Where two sources disagree on a fact — flagged, not hidden.
COULD ADD resolve open items with primary sources.
Every acronym and named actor in the system, disambiguated.
COULD ADD short bios + org charts for key actors.
Open & public, MIT-licensed. Every claim cites its source — and it grows as new reports land.

Policy roadmap for moving Kosovo from disposal toward circular value chains.

2023 research on plastic-waste streams and the recycling reality.

Donor programme briefing on waste-management support.

Programme outlook for the circular-economy transition.

Assessment of Kosovo's existing waste legal framework.

Supporting figures behind the headline numbers.
More reports, press, and field data slot in the same way — re-run the extraction, and the dossier updates.
Conclusion
The Hackathon Framework can be used for any exploration, and continued alongside any partner organization.
Hackathon Framework
Point the repo at any issue — the engine stays the same.
The open source community is at its best working with public information, alongside partners who are open to making their data public.
The best short-term hackathon projects are shaped like citizen journalism, technical proofs of concept, and frameworks that make information and analysis open to everyone.
Longer-term projects with aligned partners can be scoped from that initial work, with hackathon participants continuing alongside or in an advisory role. Ideally the work continues in some form.
Prepared by Mike Merrill for FLOSSK