The AMCU explained what it takes to prevent the country from becoming a continuous garbage dump

During the year, Ukraine produces about 49 million cubic meters of garbage, which weighs 11 million tons. Each of the Ukrainians throws out 300 kilograms of garbage per year, calculated at the AMCU.

This leads to a sharp increase in the country’s garbage landfills. Their area now already occupies 9 thousand hectares (in tiny Holland such an area is reserved for greenhouses).

For the storage of waste in Ukraine there are 5470 polygons, one third of which does not meet the standards of environmental safety and do not meet European requirements, writes agroday.

The current situation in the Antimonopoly Committee is called catastrophic: 5.6% of the polygons are reloaded, and in order to unload them, it is necessary to build 433 new ones. The Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions need the new landfills most of all, agroday reports.

In turn, the lack of places for garbage storage leads to the formation of spontaneous landfills. Annually in Ukraine there are more than 27.5 thousand unauthorized dumps with an area of ​​1.2 thousand hectares.

The main reason for their formation is that only 5.8% of garbage is recycled, and most of it is exported to landfills.

Meanwhile, in Sweden, about 99% of all household waste is processed, in Switzerland – more than 80, in Germany and the Netherlands – about 70%. In these countries landfills were no longer needed several years ago, and in old places of waste storage there are installations for collecting biogas. It is precisely in such ways of waste disposal that Ukraine should be guided, according to the AMCU.