Lviv Polytechnic signed a Cooperation Memorandum with Slavuta City Council (Khmelnytskyi region). Prior to that, there was a meeting of representatives of the Department of Ecology and Sustainable Environmental Management of our University with the Mayor of Slavuta.
The main interest of the city authorities is to introduce modern systems of solid waste management. This category covers many different items, from cardboard to glass, and this causes some problems during disposal, which requires additional sorting into subspecies. In Slavuta, this issue is always relevant, and the city authorities have developed certain mechanisms for solid waste management, here they are always open to experimentation, innovation and modernization.
«We want to determine how to sort garbage as efficiently as possible, to which components, and what to do with them next. It is very important to see how effectively we will be able to carry out processing in our city, ie locally, not in large quantities. In addition, there are categories of waste where there is no recycling mechanism yet, that is why we want those developments which there are in the universities, the technologies that you will develop in the future, we want to try together, experiment, and then spread in our communities. In general, we are ready for this, people actively accept the initiatives, so we have the opportunity and desire to continue to develop», said Slavuta Mayor Vasyl Sydor.
This is not the first such large-scale and serious practical case for the Department of Ecology and Sustainable Environmental Management. There are already some developments that can be implemented in Slavuta. The desires and problems of the city encourage developing new projects, as provided by the Memorandum.
«There are a lot of problems, not technical, but psychological and educational. This requires a change in human consciousness, and this is a difficult process. Following the example of Poland, it is necessary to encourage pre-sorting of garbage in cities and homes, not at the plant. During the Soviet era, Ukrainians got used to being fooled, and today no community agrees to create a regional recycling plant, which is necessary, and therefore the system collapses», said Myroslav Maliovanyi, head of the Department of Ecology and Sustainable Environmental Management.
