Vasily Pivovar, Legislative changes have significantly tightened responsibility for safe handling of solid waste

this is emphasized by the Deputy Chairman of regional state administration during a press conference yesterday in RSA. "In the area of solid waste, we once again want to remind you the basic Law of Ukraine "On waste" was amended for the handling of solid waste. The law focused solid waste management on the introduction of separate collection and sorting of waste, in particular from 1 January 2018 the ban on disposal of unprocessed (raw) household waste. These changes significantly increased the responsibility of citizens, legal persons and local governments regarding the safe handling of solid waste," - said the official. Vasily Pivovar also said that with the aim of reducing the volume of municipal solid waste transported to landfills in the region, introducing the practice of separate waste collection. Partially implemented the technology of separate collection of solid household waste (pre-selected glass, iron and paper) in 18 settlements of the region (the city of Vinnitsa, Gaisin, Illintsi, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Kalynivka, Khmilnyk, Ladyzhyn, Tulchin, SMT. Tomashpol, Litin, in several villages of haysyn and Tulchinsky areas). The number of the population that is now covered by separate collection is 304 thousand. In other areas, preparatory work on the organization of separate collection of household waste. This was reported in the Vinnytsia regional state administration

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Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/

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