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According to expert evaluations from 1,5 to 1,7 mln tons of different wastes are formed annually, about 1,2 mln tons of them are solid consumer wastes

The structure of solid consumer wastes over the town is following:

Mackle-paper is from 20% to 40% total mass;

  • food wastes are from 20% to 40%;
  • plastics are from 1% to 5%;
  • ferrous and coloured metals are from 2% to 5%;
  • glass is from 4% to 6%;

The textile materials are from 4% to 6%.

About 80% them are utilized at the landfill No. 5 of firm "Êyivspetstrans", 20% - on the works "Energy".

Besides that, in the town there are about 140 unsanctioned dumps, at them there are over 127 thousand tons of solid wastes.

The problem of sediment sewage waters’ treatment (with possible use) and utilisation is also of great importance. Only the treatment facilities of the Bortnitska aeration station every day detain 9-12 th.m3 of organic matters. They are not used after biological purification, and they simply are utilized in tie with lack of suitable technologies, that's why they need new territories for their accumulation.

On the municipal territory there are extraordinarily dangerous wastes of berillium production (total containers weight is 250,0 t) and radioactive matters, that are at the dump point of the Ukrainian DÎ centre "Radon". The centre "Radon" needs immediate solving of the problem of underground water pollution by radioactive tritium that get into underground aquifer horizons.

Only two enterprises have own areas for deposit into land of toxic wastes. They are VO "Khimvolokno" and VO "Radical". Slime dumps of these enterprises are disposed near Rozhivka village. They have a project power 200 thousand m3 of wastes but it is used approximately a half.

The problems of collection and utilisation of accumulators, tyres with metal cord, waste cars hulls using, waste smearing is the actual problem.

The waste motor -car tyres (90% rubber wares) are wastes that are not treated in Kyiv, and get to consumer wastes. They are almost not be destined to biological decomposition in natural conditions, they occupy a big area of landfills without possibility of its volume decreasing. The waste tyres are taken out by enterprises to the treatment facilities works into other regions. Monthly about 300 tons of tire-cover is taken out to the treatment facilities of Ivano-Frankivski, Mikolayivski, and Poltavski regions. According to the data of the State Department, yearly 600-800 tons of waste motorcar tyres (without regarding for private motor transport) are generated in the town. The great number of them is "utilized" wilful by their owners at the spontaneous dumps. Besides that, for data of handed limits, during 1997 about 400 tons of rubber wastes were taken out to the landfill of the works "Energiya" by town enterprises. The main cause is a lack of treatment powers.

The number of motor transport increasing indisputably leads to environment pollution increasing.

During last years the problem of utilisation of treatment silt of transport washing was not solved. These wastes of the petrochemical contents are kept on the enterprises’ territories. They need additional areas and special containers for keeping. They create additional difficulties in enterprises work. Solving of this problem, according to the agreement with the State Department, is entrusted to the microbiology Institute of Microbiology and Virology. However an execution of this work was temporally stopped because of lack of financing by Kyiv Rada. That's why a problem of silt areas building on the landfill TPV"5 is very actual.

The questions of toxic wastes’ utilisation formed at the municipal enterprises are not solved, too. The number such wastes increase.

In 1997 there is an ecological check as for rendering harmless and keeping of industrial toxic wastes and luminescent lamps in Kyiv. As a result, it was determined that at 113 checked enterprises there were 1302,9 tons of galvanic wastes.

In Kyiv waste luminescent lamps keeping and de- mercuration state is unsatisfactory (these wastes are of I danger class). There is almost not a collection and keeping of waste luminescent lamps from habitants and non-production organizations. That's why there is a pollution of atmospheric air and soils in Kyiv.

Only at the checked enterprises there are 251168 waste luminescent lamps. A lamps transition to de-mercuration is not implemented in tie with lack of funds.

In Kyiv, as in Ukraine as whole, the production volumes of ferro-concrete constructions and details is permanently diminished. But there are a great number of defective outputs, ferro-concrete constructions and details, that already were used as a result of buildings’ destruction, by repair works. The defective (non-standard) ferro-concrete outputs (constructions and details) are the raw materials for treatment into other production that depend on defect degree and on operational possibilities. Unused defective ferro-concrete constructions and details, while their removing to the dumps, damage the environment as of great scope wastes. That's why using of these wastes as secondary resources is of great importance for economic and ecological situation in Kyiv.

The scopes of unused glass package go on to increase in the town.

The most important problem is the treatment of plastic bottles that concern to the package category of single use. It is practically impossible to set the number of bottles, that supplied to municipal territory. Besides that, an exact structure of materials these bottles made, as a rule, is unknown. After use bottles are throw out to dustbins without any sorting.

 

 

 


 

 
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