In Khmelnytskyi, they started holding free tours to landfills for everyone. As part of the first excursion, the participants were taken to the Khmelnytskyi solid waste landfill.
This was reported by the local publication Express.
The NGO "Smart Environment. Khmelnytskyi". The purpose of such "tours" was to show in all its glory the problem of generating and accumulating waste and to tell that it can be prevented.
"Few people know, but approximately 106,000 tons of waste are thrown away in our regional center every year. That is, every second each person from the community generates 2 kilograms of garbage. This is quite a large scale. Our landfill was planned to be rehabilitated about six years ago, and there were plans to build a waste processing plant. They received certain approvals, went through the tendering procedure, but a full-scale war stood in the way of the plans. However, the problem with garbage has not disappeared," said a representative of the "Smart Environment" office. Khmelnytskyi" by Svitlana Karytun.
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The organizers posted an announcement about such an excursion on social networks. About 50 people, including children and internally displaced persons, gathered for the first round.
"First of all, we went to the Khmelnytsky solid waste landfill, which has been operating since 1956. The mountains of garbage there are eight stories high and growing all the time. In this way, people can see the full extent of the problem. Next, we went to the Waste Management Center, where we saw how they are sorted. By the way, this garbage is then handed over to entrepreneurs who use it as secondary raw materials. The third location is an ecobus, it operates at 20 points in the city. Medicines, thermometers, batteries, accumulators, paints, solvents, non-working electronics, glue, mercury-containing lamps can be brought there. All this is disposed of with taxpayers' money. After that, we took the tourists to the sorting site of the utility company that collects glass and plastic in the city. At this site, people were able to see the process of sorting and pressing the collected garbage," added the environmental activist.
According to the interlocutor, after this tour, many of its participants reported that they started sorting garbage and sharing their experience with their friends.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, on July 9 European integration Law No. 2320-IX "On Waste Management", adopted in 2022, entered into force in Ukraine. It launches the garbage reform, in particular, he replaces the concept of "waste" with the concept of "raw material" in order to make recycling attractive for investment.
