From the polygon gas plan to produce electricity and sell it on the energy market, thereby earning money to repay a loan from the World Bank.

In August of this year, the Cabinet approved a project for the construction of a garbage processing plant near Kharkov. Local officials say they have seen the negative experience of Lviv and will not allow the same problem in their city. In the meantime, local activists, not waiting for the plant to start operating, are already conducting campaigns to separate garbage collection and popularize Zero Waste philosophy, Tatyana Shtyfurko writes.

Plant for 2.5 years and electricity from gas

The total area of ​​the complex at the Dergachevsky landfill for solid household waste will be more than 39 hectares. The company plans to build two lines. The total estimated cost of construction is 1 billion 364 million UAH. To finance this project, the World Bank is attracted.

Gas-piston and steam-turbine plants for waste processing and power generation will be installed at the complex. In particular, from the polygon gas will be generated electricity, which is planned to be sold in the energy market, thus earning money to repay the loan from the World Bank.

132 workers will be created at the plant.

As Igor Terekhov, the first deputy of the Kharkov mayor, noted earlier, Kharkov is the only city in Ukraine where an enterprise with such technology will be created. “We saw the negative experience of Lviv in this matter, I am sure that this will never happen in Kharkov,” Terekhov said. Build a garbage processing plant plan for 2.5 years. The work has actually begun, but it should be noted that the Kharkov City Council turned out to be rather closed – to get more detailed information from local officials on the stage at which this process is now and what was done at that moment, we have not succeeded.

Public initiatives

At the same time, it is worth mentioning the interesting experience of social activists who, by their own efforts, are already working to minimize the problem of waste, until the waste-processing plant is fully operational. In particular, the initiative group “Kharkiv Zero Waste” is engaged in the popularization of the idea of ​​sorting and processing of garbage. “Our first mobile item was earned on July 1. We collect waste from the population of Kharkov to reduce the amount of recyclable materials at the landfill.” The recyclable material is completely recycled. “We conduct the shares every three to four weeks. There are five people in our team who specialize in a certain direction. It became almost professional to understand the technological process of processing, someone is engaged in SMM, another person specializes in educational work. There are also the same volunteers who help us in organizing the collection of the working time of the mobile item.

Also, there is a business that helps us with design, posters and places for advertising. During this time, the campaign was supported by hundreds of people. We saved about 3 tons of waste from a land plot for several shares, “Anna Prokayeva, the initiator of Kharkiv Zero Waste, told IA ZIK.” We keep neutrality with local authorities. I understand that she has her own global plans for waste management. In the meantime, this issue has not been resolved centrally, we are trying to spread the idea of ​​zero waste as much as possible. Therefore, we conduct trainings and lectures on this problem and urge to join us, “she added.

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