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Production and consumption wastes while accumulating are the sources of ecological danger and social tension. They create a negative look for Kyiv. Together with this, accumulation of considerable wastes amount shows the state inability to use in sufficient measure such kind of urban raw materials as the secondary material resources.

Today in Kyiv there is a very strained situation as for utilization and deposit into land both solid consumer wastes and industrial wastes of enterprises and organizations.

First of all the production and consumption wastes scopes generated in the town are not exactly known. The typical peculiarity of consumer wastes is their many components composition. Food and paper wastes, polyerthylene, plastic, rubber, glass, metals, wood is the valuable components that because of lack of separate picking, of sorting and storage services, is utilized without treatment, calling for additional areas for landfills and power expenses while their incineration.

On urban territory there are also extraordinarily dangerous wastes of beril production, galvanic wastes, accumulators, waste smearing, silt of treatment facilities.

Today the most of problems of keeping, deposit into land, utilization, treatmen of all wastes kind are not solved. Raids and checks results are not enjoyable.

The number of solid comsumer wastes permanently increases, their composition changes. That's why one of the first tasks in the environment protection sphere is improvement a keeping system, transport and utilizations of consumer and industrial wastes. It is necessary to combine an organizational and economic arrangements and technical-technological ones. One of the important directions is the creation of specialized enterprises for wastes treatment on the base of their sorting ragarding for contents.


 

 
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