Waste processing in Ukraine: myth or reality?

Modern world produces unbelievable amount of various production, and the major part of it is absolutely useless and of short service. Every Ukrainian creates 200-250 kg of solid waste annually, and a resident of a big city - 330-380 kg. Last year the Financial Times called Kyiv the dirtiest city in the world. Rating drafters calculated that annually one Kyiv resident produces ten times more waste than his weight. In total, Ukrainians produce about 12 million tons of solid waste every year and the amount of waste keep growing with every passing year. ForUm has decided to find out why despite such daunting figures Ukrainians do not hurry to sort and recycle waste.

Almost in all countries of Europe there are strict rules on waste sorting for its further processing. The biggest success has been achieved in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden, where people preliminary sort more than 80% of waste by themselves. In Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Italy, UA and Japan up to 50% of sorted solid waste is used as secondary raw materials, while in Ukraine it is only 5%, director of the state enterprise "Ukrecoresources" Dmytro Radionov told ForUm.

There are several reasons for this, according to him. First of all, there is no proper sorting system in Ukraine. Secondly, there is not enough capacity for processing and recycling of waste. "There are only four waste burning plants in Ukraine - in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Sevastopol, but only Kyiv plant functions, while capacity requirements on recycling of solid waste, including burning, makes more than ten million tons annually," Radionov says.

Moreover, our country does not have enough capacities for recycling of certain types of solid waste, like used combined packages and edible wastes, while recycling of such waste as glass, plastic, metals, paper and batteries has its own nuances.
http://en.for-ua.com/analytics/2013/07/18/154156.html

 

i love so much Ukraine, but they dont have a state mined politicians, never have had and never will have ...i m 100% sure its a brutal reality Not a myth (((((((

 

True+ Kiev took the lead some years ago.
http://society.lb.ua/life/2011/04/15/92876_samim_gryaznim_gorodom_evropi_pr.html

 

western propaganda, as usual Helsinki , Stockholm, Vancouver place 1, 2, 3...i have been there and compare to Kiev they all $uck

 

Maybe you and ppl from Economist Intelligence visited different places there
Though can't say that some Europeans cities in this respect are much more better than Kiev.

 

for my people are more important then the places,

 

Of course, but this is another question. As you can see EIU’ report was about another problem, it was not about local ppl