e2b4d76ff0c90e77961f8f4027920381“Lviv garbage” became a headache not only for the authorities in Lviv, but also raised the problem of garbage disposal throughout the country. And with it, and the lack of waste processing plants. Throughout the past year, mayors of cities with over a million people have announced their intention to build such factories in their homes, and even reported on their first successes. Do not lag behind their colleagues and officials of the Dnieper. But let’s look at all the details.

What is there with the neighbors?

Back in December 2016 in Kharkov Mayor of the city Gennady Kernes said that the city council of Kharkiv signed an agreement with the Polish company for the construction of a garbage processing plant. The cost of building a factory is 30 million euros, and the construction of a garbage processing plant itself should begin as early as March 2017

Another large city – Odessa – remembered even earlier. There, in July 2016, a memorandum was signed between the city authorities and the South Korean company OHB HOLDINGS about the construction of a garbage processing plant, a sorting facility on the territory of a dumped urban landfill, as well as a landfill degassing project. As a result of the construction, the production of alternative fuel, secondary raw materials, building materials, as well as electricity for the needs of the city will be established. The cost of the project will cost $ 25 million.

The city authorities decided to go even further, and in December last year the deputy head of the KCSA Petr Panteleev announced his intention to build several waste processing plants in Kiev right on the right, left banks and in the Goloseevsky district.

However, while each of these projects only at the stage of preparation for construction or even at the level of declarations.

And will it be in the Dnieper?

Last week, on March 2, in the city council of the Dnieper, a round table was held dedicated to the topic of energy efficiency, in which people’s deputies, directors of departments of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, business representatives and eco-activists took part. One of the speakers, the head of the environmental protection department Pavel Golovakha, said that the Dnieper is now struggling to get a loan from the Japanese government for the construction of an incineration plant.

“We can have time to build such a plant before 2020. However, this will require support from the state. The plant will produce electricity, which will also be useful for the city. Besides, by this project we will be able to solve the problem with garbage in several regions of our country at once – after settling the situation in the Donbass there will be environmental problems and issues of garbage disposal. ”

Interestingly, on the same day at a press conference of the deputy mayor of the Dnieper, Mikhail Lysenko said that for the implementation of the project of a waste-processing plant in the Dnieper there are no serious investors yet.

“As a rule, the conversation with investors is reduced to the fact that” we are ready to build a garbage processing plant for you, but in our Hungarian or Swedish bank, take a loan at 10% per annum, and we will build the plant for your money, “says Mikhail Lysenko. In addition, the construction of the plant will cost him an estimated fabulous 300 million euros. However, as we saw earlier from the experience of other regional centers – the amount of investment can be several times less.

But besides money, in the issue of building an incinerator or garbage recycling plant, there are many other things.

And will it be profitable at all?

According to Timur Golovakha, director of the Dneprovsky profile company DMESKO, who was present at the round table on March 2, the statement about the possible construction of an incinerator plant in the Dnipro became “shocking news” for him.

According to him, it is inefficient to build an incinerator plant in the Dnieper. A better project would be a garbage recycling plant with recycled production lines, technologies for generating not only electrical but also thermal energy. Moreover, in this way it will be possible to provide an entire district of the city with inexpensive heat and even more – everything will depend on the capacity of the boilers at the plant. “In many cities in Europe, such plants are capable of providing heat to entire districts of the city. So, the Spittelau garbage processing plant in Vienna provides 60,000 flats with heat. And the Baker plant in Copenhagen, which will be completed this year, will be able to heat 160,000 homes. “