As part of the waste treatment reform, Ukraine is implementing the first major investment project: within two years, two modern incineration plants with a total processing capacity of 145,000-220,000 tonnes of waste per year will be built in Kyiv region.
According to Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ruslan Strilets, on September 8 he and Head of Kyiv Regional State Administration Oleksiy Kuleba, Mayor of Boryspil Volodymyr Borysenko, Mayor of Brovary Ihor Sapozhko and Mayor of Fastiv Mykhailo Netiazhuk signed a memorandum of cooperation, effectively securing the intention to build waste processing enterprises.
“Two modern plants for household waste treatment will be built on the territory of Boryspil, Brovary and Fastiv communities. Their uniqueness lies in the use of several processing technologies at once. In particular, organic waste (food waste) will be processed with subsequent production of biomethane, as well as deep sorting of waste with the allocation of resource-valuable materials – scrap metal, glass and plastic,” the minister wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
The planned capacity of the common plant for the Brovary and Boryspil communities will be approximately 110,000-120,000 tonnes of waste per year, Fastiv – 35,000-100,000 tonnes per year. The construction period will be two years, the projects will be implemented at the expense of loans from European banks.
According to Strilets, negotiations are underway with potential investors who have long been waiting for the adoption of a law on waste management in Ukraine. The minister recalled that the waste management reform was launched by the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada in July of bill No. 2207-1-D, which creates transparent conditions and guarantees for investments in this sector of the economy.
The minister specified that Kyiv region was chosen for the implementation of the reform, since amid the Russian full-scale invasion, the capital and the capital region demonstrated the stability and invincibility of the entire country.
