The mayor of Irpen, Buchanskiy district of Kyiv region Oleksandr Markushin reported on the possible introduction of innovative technology of garbage recycling in the community.
“Japanese company Padeco will conduct research in Irpen community in the framework of the pilot project on recycling of garbage URBAN RIG. Technology offer innovative – to process household waste in a special apparatus with the help of high-temperature steam. The output promises useful raw materials for industry and a significant reduction in the volume of waste. Organics will be turned into coal, plastic into petroleum products,” he said in his Telegram channel on Thursday.
In addition to household garbage, this technology can also help with recycling and reducing the volume of construction waste, particularly concrete.
He specified that Padeco is an international consulting company authorized by the Ministry of Economy of Japan to select and analyze projects for financing in Ukraine.
The study to determine whether the proposed technology is suitable for Ukrainian realities will take three months.
“If everything goes well and the Japanese government allocates funding – Irpin community will be able to receive the first trial machines for environmental cleaning in the spring,” Markushin said.
The state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” is launching a project to create a system of personnel reserve, said the company’s CEO Yuriy Bolokhovets.
“Forests of Ukraine employs more than 30 thousand people in all regions of the country. Thousands of management positions. Recently, we have been actively getting rid of managers who commit abuses or violations (…) But where and how to find the best personnel? (…) That’s why we are creating a system of personnel reserve,” he wrote on Facebook.
According to Bolokhovets, the reserve should open up growth opportunities for the capable and hardworking. Every employee who wants to take part in the competition can apply, be tested and undergo a comprehensive assessment of knowledge and skills. Once a vacancy is opened, the HR committee will conduct a selection process, taking into account candidates from the reserve. Employees who are selected for the personnel reserve will be given the opportunity to improve their skills at training courses in law, management, psychology, IT, etc.
The Director General of the State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” expressed hope that the new system of candidate evaluation will be not only objective, but also transparent with the possibility of public control.
Currently, the talent pool system is being finalized, a list of positions is being formed, and tests covering all aspects of the company’s work are being developed. The reserve for three positions has already been launched in a pilot mode: a forester, a branch director, and a deputy director of a regional office.
The state enterprise expects that the reserve will start working next year. And all appointments to senior positions will be made exclusively on a competitive basis.
As reported, Ukraine launched a forestry reform in 2016. As part of it, the sale of raw wood at electronic auctions has already been introduced. Since 2021, an interactive map of wood processing facilities has been operating in a test mode in a number of regions.
The industry has implemented the Forest in a Smartphone project, which contains a list of logging tickets for timber harvesting and allows you to check the legality of logging on the agency’s online map.
On June 1, 2023, Ukraine launched a pilot for the electronic issuance of logging tickets and certificates of origin of timber. In addition, the State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” has launched a pilot project to procure timber harvesting services through the Prozorro electronic platform.
To date, the SFE has harvested more than 130 thousand cubic meters of firewood for the 2023/2024 heating season.
Swiss pharmaceutical company Acino became a partner of the project “Mobile hospitals for Victory” implemented by Charitable Foundation for Reconstruction and Development of Ukraine.
According to the press release from the Foundation, within the framework of this project Acino shipped to the pilot mobile medical complex 1600 packages of drugs from its own product portfolio for the total amount of UAH 150 thousand.
The “Mobile Hospitals for Victory” project provides for purchasing 52 mobile hospitals. The cost of one such medical complex on wheels is EUR 240 thousand.
Currently 14 organizations in Ukraine and abroad have joined the project.
Mobile hospital is a complete hospital on wheels equipped with modern medical equipment. It consists of an admission room, a laboratory, an X-ray room, an operation room and also technical rooms, toilets and showers. The hospital is equipped with its own generator. Two medical teams can work there at the same time, with the ability to save up to 100 lives a day, based on the “golden hour” principle.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Acino pharmaceutical company has donated more than 67 million UAH for humanitarian purposes, including over 200 thousand packages of medicines to hospitals and hospitals in the country.
Germany has joined an international project to restore Ukrainian cities #UN4Kharkiv-Mykolaiv and allocated EUR5 million.
As it was informed, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has created working groups #UN4Kharkiv and #UN4Mykolaiv and invited international architects to help these cities develop future master plans. The British architect Norman Foster Foundation helps Kharkiv, while the global design and architectural company One Works (Italy) coordinates the work in Nikolaev.
It became known about the German side joining the projects during the online meeting of the working groups, which was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine, UNECE, the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, local governments of Mykolaiv and Kharkiv and other international organizations.
“Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression, we have been sending the most necessary aid to Ukraine. And at the same time we are thinking about how to support you in rebuilding after the end of the war, because it is necessary to prepare for this now. I personally received a task from the German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to represent our country in this work,” said State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Jochen Flasbart.
He recalled that the G7 countries met last December, during which the member states expressed their understanding that Ukraine needed comprehensive assistance.
Flasbat said that the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development will provide the international project #UN4Kharkiv-Mykolaiv with financial support of EUR5 million.
“We are giving the “green light” and preparing funds so that these projects can be successfully implemented. We hope that the terrible war will end as soon as possible, and we will start rebuilding Ukraine,” Jochen Flasbarth makes plans for the future.
The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing up to $20 million to the Grain from Ukraine initiative announced by President Vladimir Zelensky at the G20 Summit earlier this week to help feed people around the world, USAID said in a release Friday.
“USAID will provide support through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to facilitate the delivery of additional shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” the release said.
The U.S. agency recalls that before Putin’s invasion, Ukraine was one of WFP’s largest grain suppliers and the fourth largest commercial exporter of wheat in the world.
Today’s announcement builds on WFP’s existing $173 million support to date to buy Ukrainian grain to feed people in countries facing the most severe food crises, including Ethiopia, Yemen, and Afghanistan. Thanks to U.S. funding, 210,000 tons of food was purchased, enough to feed an estimated 12.6 million people for one month.
All told, since the start of Putin’s war against Ukraine in February, the U.S. has provided more than $11 billion to combat the global food crisis, including nearly $8.6 billion in humanitarian aid, the release indicated.
According to it, USAID also continues to help Ukrainian farmers who risk their lives to feed the world through the Agricultural Sustainability Initiative-Ukraine (AGRI-Ukraine). The initiative focuses on four areas that are critical to supporting Ukraine’s agricultural exports and its contribution to global food security: providing critical resources for farmers; improving export logistics and infrastructure; improving farmers’ access to finance; and addressing the needs of drying, storing, and processing crops. USAID has invested $100 million in the initiative, and the agency seeks to raise at least $150 million in additional funding from other donors, foundations and the private sector.
NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine is implementing in Lviv, together with the city council, a project for the construction of a CHP plant on wood chips, which is planned to be put into operation by February 2023.
“I am sure that by February the CHPP will be operational. It will take a few months instead of a year and a half. NAC helps with the implementation of this project both in financing and in development. several months,” Naftogaz head Yuriy Vitrenko said at a briefing during a visit to the Lviv region on Friday.
As the correspondent of “Energoreforma” reports, according to Vitrenko, the NAC, which is implementing a number of similar projects in Ukraine, is ready to support other cities in this direction. ‘We have an interest in investing in such projects in order to import less gas at enormous prices. The implementation of such projects is beneficial both economically and in terms of ecology,” Vitrenko explained.
At the same time, he noted that both the Lviv authorities and the NAC itself also have a number of agreements in order “to then attract funds from IFIs for such projects.”
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovoy noted that this would be the city’s first powerful thermal power plant running on alternative fuels, which would cover about a quarter of its heat needs. “We planned such a project with the EBRD for a long time, but according to their classical procedures, we could only start it next year. But the Russian aggression intensified the thought process so much that we came to an agreement with Naftogaz,” Sadovoy explained.
According to him, the participation of the national company, which is the market leader, gives more opportunities and priorities, including in obtaining equipment.
