Chernivtsi can pass mercury lamps for safe disposal
Out of the municipal Fund of environmental protection allocated 50 thousand hryvnias for provision of environmentally safe collection from the population, transportation, storage and disposal of waste batteries and lamps that contain mercury, including manufacture of special container to collect them. The container will be installed in the housing and utilities enterprises and private enterprises that hold the housing. Discard fluorescent lamps in the trash is impossible. Getting on the landfill with normal household waste, they break and evaporation of mercury can pollute the air and poison through the soil into groundwater. Subsequently, the toxins get into the water supply and wells. The world health organization considers mercury to toxins, that is the most threatening to the environment and human health. Collection from population, transportation, storage and disposal of waste batteries and lamps containing mercury will be launched this year after the completion of the procurement works e-procurement system Prozorro. Also from the municipal Fund of environmental protection allocated 30tysyach hryvnia for the provision of services in the pumping of observation wells at the landfill of solid household waste on the street Cornsey . Observation wells required to monitor groundwater quality outside the landfill. This was reported in the Chernivtsi city CouncilÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
