In Ukraine, since 1998, the Law “On Waste” has been in force, to which last year amendments were made to “Requirements for handling household waste”. However, despite the changes made, the document does not comply with the EU Directives regulating this area, according to the article “Expensive waste: why Ukraine is drowning in garbage” on the 24 channel website.

Thus, in Ukraine more than 20 thousand of spontaneous
landfills. At the same time, given the Association Agreement with the European Union, directives
The EU governing domestic waste is mandatory for Ukraine. “They
set completely new standards for Ukrainian realities,
aimed at protecting the environment and public health. After all, the current
Ukrainian legislation in the field of waste management is extremely
imperfect. For example, it provides for landfill waste, their
landfills and dumps, most of which are not
comply with environmental safety requirements. Scares that in Ukraine
only 7% of the generated household waste is recycled. In the EU, this figure is much
more, ”says the material.

As the expert of the NGO “All-Ukrainian organization” Green
Fund. Overcoming humanitarian and environmental disasters “Boris Malyshev, for
approaching waste management standards, the government approved in 2017
National Waste Management Strategy until 2030. But to introduce it
provisions should first adopt a new law on waste management, as well as
a number of specialized laws (“On municipal waste”, “On hazardous waste”, etc.)
and bylaws.

According to experts, to prevent environmental
disaster, you must first change the approach to the system of waste disposal.
In addition, it is important to maximize the use of waste as
energy resource for recycling and reuse in
industry. “Only a systematic approach to the issue of waste is able to solve
the problem of mass pollution of the environment, which is acute, not only
in Ukraine, but all over the world, ”experts state.

Previously, SKELET-info reported that the Kiev City Council would oblige to establish a single rental rate for enterprises engaged in the collection and sorting of secondary raw materials. In addition, the State Agency of Ukraine on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving made a proposal to raise the cost of garbage collection