12 large spontaneous landfills were discovered near Sumy. Photo

12 large spontaneous landfills were discovered near Sumy. Photo shutterstock
Katerina Belousova

The landfill must be liquidated by October 3

Near the city of Sumy, along the road, eco-inspectors discovered 12 natural dumps with a height of one and a half meters, which contain large volumes of household, repair, construction and industrial waste.

The area of ​​the unauthorized landfill reached 1,200 m2, reports State Inspection on Telegram.

Violations were discovered during an inspection of the territory with free access on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Sumy. The landfill is located on the territory of the Bezdrytsk village council, on the side of the highway from Sumikhimprom to the Tokariv sand quarry.

It was noted that the head of this community was given a demand to eliminate unauthorized waste dumps by October 3, 2022.

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Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Sumy the Shlyakhrembudenterprise systematically transported waste and plant remains on a plot of land near the so-called Bezimenne Lake, which caused the littering of three plots of land with a total area of ​​3380 m2 for 47,974,596 hryvnias.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, in the Sumy region airstrike on the recreation center Sonyachna Polyana, which is located in the middle of the Sumy forest farm, caused losses in the amount of almost 1.73 million hryvnias.

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