The Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Odessa Regional State Administration announced a tender for safe disposal of more than 175.5 tons of expired pesticides in the villages of the Podolsk region.
The expected cost of the work is 18.5 million hryvnia, according to the tender on the Prozorro platform.
The Regional State Administration plans to remove hazardous waste that is located in plastic and paper bags, from 25 villages and towns. The amount of waste in communities ranges from 0.9 tons to 33 tons.
The Contractor must carry out by December 25, 2023:
- environmentally friendly collection of toxic waste;
- their transportation, storage, processing;
- removal of production waste;
- production and use of biocides and phytopharmaceuticals, including waste pesticides and herbicides that do not meet standards and have an expired shelf life not suitable for use purpose (code A4030).
One of the conditions of the tender is monthly reporting by the contractor, as well as daily reports with video recording of direct waste operations.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in October in the Odessa region they removed a landfill containing 147 tons of insecticide DDT, which had been located on the coast of the Khadzhibey estuary since 1979.
As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in the Chernihiv region, from the villages of Kalinovka and Belovezhi, the first 7 tons of unusable plant protection chemicals (CPCPs) that have no identified owners were removed for disposal.
