Huge pile just hangs over Ukraine and threatens an environmental catastrophe. The only waste treatment plant in the capital transforms ordinary household garbage. Here, it is converted into usable energy, which heats the water and provide heat from one area of ​​Kiev.
However, completely burn trash impossible. Although the temperature in the boilers mad over a thousand degrees, remain in the waste slag. So the garbage we basically do not sort in the ashes are even metal.
Of the burned debris collected scrap metal. For a month you can collect up to 30 tons of metal. Through incineration in air pollutants fall. And although all under the law, refiners are trying to modernize the boilers to the European level.
Even if you disassemble the garbage, it will not always fall on the processing plants. Often because of food debris in the middle, for example in the same bottles, simply bury them in landfills. In order to separate organic from inorganic you need special equipment.
In the capital, only a year produce a million tons of household waste. Of these, the processing is the maximum a quarter. Now the Ministry of Environment has prepared a bill that proposes to make more stringent requirements for the processing and disposal of waste. However, when the document gets into the parliament walls, do not undertake to say in the ministry.