glass-making industries’ geography can help in solving of the problem of waste
removal from the city and garbage processing. So, near Lviv is located Zhydachiv
PPM, and near Kyiv - the Obukhiv CPM and Gostomel’ glass factory, which buy a
significant part of raw materials (up to one third) abroad. And at that time both cities
of Lviv and Kyiv have big problems with the removal and processing of solid
household (including waste paper) and other (including glass and plastic bottles) types
of waste.
Let’s note that the tourist left behind a lot of waste, especially in the city center.
It is the direct waste. In addition to it, there is indirect waste, it is a waste of hotels,
restaurants, cafes, which in the center of Lviv in recent years appeared a lot. This waste
also requires efficient collection, removal and processing technologies – such
possibility is provided by "reverse logistics". In Lviv, the need to place trash cans near
each bench in the center was taken into account (garbage cans were artistically
designed and made by local craftsmen), but no ways were found for the removal of
solid waste and its subsequent processing. Meanwhile, the daily amount of waste in the
city of Lviv is 600 tons. As we can see, it is possible to solve the garbage problem in
Lviv on basis of two approaches, i.e. transport and logistical. Until recently, the first
approach prevailed in the city, which was to find transport intermediaries (companies),
which were obliged (for a very decent payments) to find suitable landfills and take out
urban waste from Lviv. But, as experience showed, when Lviv garbage got into almost
all areas of Ukraine, it did not solve the problem of waste removal. And only recently
the city leadership turned to a logistic approach, i.e. the use of "reverse" logistics,
when not only input streams to the city (including tourists, goods, raw materials, fuel
etc.) were analyzed, but also city output streams were subject to analysis, among them
waste streams. Logistical science and practice have developed proposals for efficient
management of these flows and their deep processing at special enterprises (waste
processing plants). Such enterprises can be built in relatively short time and the
corresponding investments can be both international and internal. Such experience is
represented by Kyiv, where the waste volume is 3000 tons per day, but their storage
and processing is successfully carried out, firstly, at the landfill site near Pidhirtsi
village; secondly, at the Bortnychy Aeration Station (BAS); and thirdly, at the
incineration plant "Energy" in Darnitsa. Kyiv actively attracts international
achievements and investments, so BAS is being modernized with the participation of
Japanese companies, and in the city of Fastov, a plastic waste recycling plant was
constructed with Chinese participation (accordingly, several plastic picking points
were opened in Kyiv). The next idea of the new technology of street waste control the
Mayor of Kyiv V.Klychko brought from a business trip to Berlin. This is the
installation of underground garbage cans, which will gradually replace the usual old-
style containers for garbage. In such way, the old urns that are still "working" in the
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