BREST, 20 November (BelTA) – The official ceremony of opening the Kobrin solid waste sorting plant (Brest Oblast) is scheduled for 22 November, BelTA learnt from Director of the Kobrin Utility Company Sergei Yelets.
All the equipment for the new plant was purchased under the EU/UNDP project “Support to the development of a comprehensive framework for international environmental cooperation in the Republic of Belarus”. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is the executive agency of the project.
The plant is fitted with a recyclable materials sorting line, which has already been running in a testing regime, a 50-tonne press, and a PET perforator. Kobrin utility workers have also received a compact telehandler with attachments and four dumptrucks. Besides, the city continues designing a new eco-friendly landfill.
This is the second phase of the delivery of equipment under the EU/UNDP project in Kobrin. The first batch of equipment for separate waste collection was delivered in November 2012. The local utility service received then more than 600 waste bins for separate plastic, paper and glass collection, 40 containers for large-size and mixed waste, four dumptrucks and a bulldozer to the total tune of nearly $590,000.
According to regional representative of the project Inna Yermakovich, new elements in the separate waste collection system and awareness-building efforts among the population have helped almost double the collection of recyclable materials in the city of Kobrin and Kobrin District in 2013. On the whole, an estimated ?2 million worth of events are envisaged to improve the management of solid domestic waste disposal in the pilot projects in the towns of Mosty (Grodno Oblast) and Kobrin (Brest Oblast).
The joint EU/UNDP project “Support to the development of a comprehensive framework for international environmental cooperation in the Republic of Belarus” was launched in August 2011. The project provides for the improvement of the existing system for solid domestic waste disposal, implementation of the world’s best practices.
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