The mayors of all will be to demand from the Kiev office of the new fear of its own citizens

June 14 in Lviv region lit up another landfill. At this time in the regional center of the Lviv region Zhydachiv. So far, burning huge 3.5 hectare landfill waste, to extinguish involved buses. In just two weeks before the incident broke out a fire on the other Lviv landfill – near the village of Gribovich. The fire finally extinguished until now. During its quenching due to landslide debris of more than 100 thousand cubic meters of four people died. According to the mayor of Lviv Eugene Garden, gribovichskuyu dump burned. President Petro Poroshenko’s reaction to the request of the Garden to announce a fire in Gribovich ecological disaster and to approve, finally, to eliminate landfill project, which has already been allocated European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funds (EBRD), was unexpected. “Rubbish should be cleaned, instead of doing it on the big policy” – said the Ukrainian president.

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A Poroshenko heard the Garden, and other mayors. And, apparently, to thinking. How else. After all, the head of state made it clear: that such stories happen in Gribovich, mayors can only rely on themselves. They even give a kick for weak diligence in solving the unsolvable problem. The fact that the use of fire on the aircraft fire-fighting in Gribovich started only on the 12th day of fire – more proof of this thesis. After the incident with the dump against the Garden accusations rained. They say that in his position do not keep track of the decade, the measures are not adopted. But these accusations are true only in part. The fact that the city, even such large as the Lions do not have the resources that would be able to solve the infrastructure problem.
The cost of the same project, the EBRD, which said in an address to Garden Poroshenko, is € 30 million – about 20% of the revenue part of the budget of Lviv. It is clear that further highlight the funds the city authorities are not able to. It was as part of the political struggle interpreted Lviv events other mayors. Thus, the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Ruslan Martsinko June 9, shortly after the capture of the Lviv City Hall, said the possible diversion for the arson of a landfill in the village near the town of Fish. “There is information that could be arson our site. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the safety of law enforcement officers there, draw fire “- Martsinko said. On his initiative for the protection of the landfill in Ivano-Frankivsk have already joined the local “City Association ATO members.” Note the problem of recycling waste is no less acute in any of the Ukrainian regions, and each mayor might be under the same impact as the Garden – is enough to set fire to the city dump.

Landfill and big politics

In fact, Poroshenko himself used the topic as a big trash policy instrument. Gribovich became for him another opportunity to specify the progressive mayor in his place. Recall conditional presidential rating Garden (33% according to recent polls), slightly less than the Hope Savchenko, significantly higher than that of Yulia Tymoshenko, and an order of magnitude higher than the rating of Poroshenko.

“Virtually all fires occur landfills, like Lviv, but not all of them fall into the press. Most of the landfill – closed facilities where there just is not possible. Understand that there is something going on, it is possible only when people start to block the road, overlooking the freeway and the road and make demands to close a particular landfill, “- said the president of the Public Union” The era of Ukraine “, the ecologist Alexander Ignatenko.

Long waste money

Solve the “garbage problem” can only be supported by the country’s central authorities. This was stated by participants of the Kiev city administration initiated a conference on the theme “Landfills – ecological suicide Ukraine. How to prevent man-made disasters? “.
And it’s not just the lack of funding, which can provide only the central government. We also need laws that will help to attract business. Investments in waste recycling pays off not earlier than 10 years.

“Today, in Ukraine there is no economic incentive for the development of waste recycling industry. This business is not profitable, investors do not want to go here. On small compact waste recycling line needs at least € 10 million, and the construction of the plant -. € 300 million Such money now to invest in Ukraine nobody wants “, – said Deputy Kiev mayor Pavel Panteleev.

The need for facilities for waste processing in the Ukraine is enormous, and only for the volume of the Ukrainian capital needed “garbage” investments of about € 1 billion. “Today, landfills occupy about 7% of the territory of Ukraine. The morphology of debris – polyethylene packaging material in the vast majority. We need to build at least 2 to 3 waste incineration plants, each of which costs about € 300 million, only in Kiev! But this requires changes to the law to be able to attract investments “, – said the director of KP” Kievkommunservis “Eugene Rusin.

“This is without a doubt a problem of national importance: the problem of power. The state is obliged to motivate the business that would be interested to come into this business, but nothing like this there is no trace, “- stressed the environmentalist Ignatenko.

A decisive acceleration

Decentralization should start from the bottom. The requirement of a number of regional councils – Odessa, Zhitomir and others – to the government about the redistribution of power received a boost in the face of visible infrastructure problems. Such disasters as fire at the landfill in Gribovich – a sad acknowledgment of powerlessness regions who can not solve their problems, hoping for help in Kiev. Conflict Poroshenko and Garden strain caused many mayors. The revolt against the mayors of Kiev matured. It does not have the courage, but fear of its own citizens can make the determination of mayors incredible acceleration.