Eco-inspectors discovered a landfill of household and hazardous waste of class I in the area where it was liquidated in June 2022 in the village of Mala Vilshanka in the Bilotserkiv district of Kyiv region.
The estimated area of the new landfill is 162 m2 , reports the State Inspectorate of the Capital District on Facebook.
"While the war continues in Ukraine, air defense forces repel enemy missile attacks – in the rear, citizens commit crimes against our environment," the message emphasized.
In addition to plastic bottles and other household waste, a large number of fluorescent lamps, which contain poisonous mercury compounds, ended up in the landfill.
Eco-inspectors took soil samples for further laboratory research on the level of pollution.
In the message, it was noted that the landfill on this plot of land was discovered in 2021. In June 2022, the Malyovilshan Village Council informed that it had fulfilled the requirement for its liquidation of the landfill.
Eco-inspectors will hand over calculation materials and laboratory test results to law enforcement agencies.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that 200,000 tons of industrial waste are stored at the Radykal plant in Kyiv, Darnytsky District, 10,000 of which are highly saturated with mercury, which threatens the city with an ecological disaster.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in the Vyshgorod district of the Kyiv region, more than 100 metal barrels that contained dangerous substances. In particular, petroleum products and heavy metals of toxicity class I.
