The Hrebinka community in Poltava Oblast has introduced a system of separate household waste collection.
The first eight waste sorting sites were opened in the city to collect plastic, glass, paper, and cardboard, Hrebinka Mayor Vitaliy Kolisnichenko wrote on Facebook.
He emphasized that such an initiative fulfills the requirements of Law 2320-IX "On Waste Management."
Kolisnichenko explained that the sites are equipped with two types of containers – one for glass and the other for plastic and paper. The system of mixed waste collection is currently unchanged, i.e., on schedule.
" Residents and visitors of our city are requested to understand and properly sort the above-mentioned waste, not to bring to these sites or throw any other waste into these tanks. Let's prove to everyone from the first day of separate collection of household waste that we are worthy of being Europeans and responsible citizens," he said.
Oleksandr Lymar, an expert on waste management at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, added that this is the first practice of containerized waste collection in the community.
" Through the implementation of separate waste collection, communities also improve the waste management system as a whole," he wrote in Facebook
He added that in a number of communities, waste is still removed with the help of tractors and the system of separate collection can bring real changes. Now the Verkhovna Rada is considering drafts of the law "On packaging and packaging waste", which will introduce a system of separate collection throughout Ukraine.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in August in Poltava Oblast in Pyryatin, the first 30 tons of cardboard packaging waste, which were collected by enterprises and residents of four communities according to the principle of extended producer responsibility, were sent for processing.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in the Poltava region, residents of the village of Krasne opposed the potential construction of a waste processing plant near the community.
