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UkrInform: Zubko says only 3 percent of waste recycled in Ukraine

Published Aug. 16, 2018 at 12:44 pm

Communal workers demonstrate next garbage bags in front of the City Hall in Kyiv, on Dec. 20, 2016, during a protest against the plans of Kyiv's authorities to close one of waste recycling plants in order to build in its place an elite housing complex.

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The waste management situation in Ukraine is discouraging: now only 2.7 percent of waste is incinerated and 3 percent is recycled.

Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Hennadiy Zubko said this at the first meeting of the Coordinating Council on the implementation of the National Strategy for Waste Management in Ukraine until 2030, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.