Zero Waste. How can hromada completely avoid waste generation? – expert interview

Vyacheslav Sorokovskyi, public services and monitoring expert of the Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Decentralisation Support in Ukraine” (DESPRO), talks on the national peculiarities of garbage collection in our country, as well as how to get out of a garbage loop.

Author: Dmytro Synyakhttp://decentralization.ua/uploads/ckeditor/pictures/353/content_%D0%A1%D0%98%D0%9D%D0%AF%D0%9A.jpg

An interactive map of Ukrainian landfills www.ecomapa.gov.ua has been recently replenished with a new information service, that allows to determine the location of the nearest recyclable waste receiving point. The map of interactive landfills shows over 700 points receiving recyclable waste (batteries, fluorescent lamps, waste paper, plastic, glass, etc.). The largest number of such facilities is registered in Kyiv (119), in the Zakarpattya (75), Kharkiv (84) and Dnipropetrovsk (37) Oblasts. This is what we began our conversation from.

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