Kyiv to collect used gas cylinders to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Kyiv to collect used gas cylinders to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Katerina Belousova

A QR code was placed on the containers, through which you can inform the public utilities about the abandoned cylinders

Residents and guests of Kyiv can donate their used tourist gas cylinders to help the defenders of Ukraine.

Such cylinders can be taken to one of 200 special orange containers for hazardous waste, and specialists will refill them and hand them over to the military, the State Environmental Inspectorate of the Capital District reports on Facebook.

This is a joint initiative of public utilities from "Kyivkommunservice" and the Volunteer Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the Obukhov region.

The report noted that the cylinders should be thrown into a special hole for batteries. It is also necessary to adhere to the instructions placed on the cylinders, which relate to safe operation and proper disposal.

The authors emphasized that the cylinders must be empty.

Kyivkommunservis has already labeled containers for hazardous waste and placed a QR code on them, with which citizens can report a cylinder left in a container at a specific address.

It is noted that in addition to the delivery of cylinders in orange containers, they can be brought:

  • at the address: Kyiv, st. Kudryavskaya, 23;
  • at the production base of KP "Kyivkommunservis" (Kyiv, Bakinskaya st., 37-41).

The authors emphasized that the container can be found by link.

Earlier, EcoPo;itic wrote, that in Kyiv, residents and guests of the city in January 2023 handed over for recycling 1524 kg of used batteries, 177 intact mercury thermometers, 2988 energy-saving lamps. Such waste can be taken to one of 200 special orange containers.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, students of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute are collecting used disposable electronic cigarettes to support a laboratory for the manufacture of mine detectors.

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