Eight waste disposal sites will be built in the Vitebsk region by 2016

August 1, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Eight waste disposal sites will be built in the Vitebsk region by 2016, the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection informed a BELTA correspondent. The disposal sites will be built during the current five-year period in accordance with the "Clean City" program of the Regional Program for Innovative and Investment Development of the Vitebsk Region for 2011-2015 in Vitebsk, Glubokoye, Bogushevsk of Senno district, Lepel, Chashniki, Orsha, Novopolotsk and Postavy. In the first five settlements, it is planned to implement these projects already this year, and in the remaining ones - within the next three years. Br8.6 billion has been allocated from the regional budget for environmental protection for these purposes. In addition, the construction of a similar facility is planned in Shumilino in 2015. In the first half of this year, 60.5 thousand tons of secondary material resources (SMR) were extracted in the Vitebsk region. The tasks of the State Program for the collection (procurement) and processing of secondary raw materials in the Republic of Belarus for 2009-2015 have been fulfilled for the procurement of construction waste, asphalt concrete and textiles. The tasks for four types of SMR have not been fulfilled: 31.7% of the target for waste paper was procured, 10.9% for cullet, 16.2% for tires, and 28.8% for plastics. The issue of collecting bulky waste from the population has also not been properly resolved. In 2011, 1983.6 thousand cubic meters of municipal waste were generated in the region, of which 1502.3 thousand cubic meters, or 76.8%, were municipal waste from the population. There are 26 landfills for solid municipal waste (SMW) and 493 mini-landfills in the region for their disposal. All SMW landfills are registered in the registry of disposal sites and have licenses from the Ministry of Natural Resources for waste disposal. The region also has 18 sorting stations (re-sorting points), and almost 17 thousand containers have been installed for waste collection, of which 4.2 thousand are intended for separate collection.