Beshenkovichi Regional Executive Committee
Address: 13, Chuklaya Street,
Beshenkovichi, 211361
Phone:
8 (02131) 6-42-45
E-mail:
priemnay@beshenkovichi.gov.by
Address: 13, Chuklaya Street,
Beshenkovichi, 211361
Phone:
8 (02131) 6-42-45
E-mail:
priemnay@beshenkovichi.gov.by
A waste sorting plant outside Minsk will be reconstructed by the end of 2024, BelTA learned from Anastasia Vorobyova, Deputy Director General for Beautification, Sanitary Maintenance of the Housing Stock of the Minsk city housing and utilities enterprise, at a press conference on new approaches to environmental protection.
Anastasia Vorobyova said: “One of the goals of the national strategy on managing solid municipal waste and secondary material resources in Belarus in the period till 2035 is to reduce the volume of burial of solid municipal waste and respectively increase the volume of usage of solid municipal waste.”
As for Minsk, in 2022 the city used 36% of the total volume of solid municipal waste being generated. This figure was reached partially thanks to the city's existing waste sorting lines with the average annual capacity of 56,900 tonnes and thanks to a waste recycling plant near the waste dump Trostenetsky with the average annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes.
In order to increase the volume of usage of solid municipal waste, the existing waste recycling plant near the waste dump Trostenetsky will be reconstructed by late 2024. The plant's sorting capacity will be raised to 600,000 tonnes per annum. It will allow sending all the waste Minsk generates to the sorting plant.
The waste sorting plant is also supposed to start making refuse-derived fuel (RDF) out of what is left once solid municipal waste is recycled to meet needs of cement production. The plant will process, sort, and fragment large pieces of waste generated by sorting mixed solid municipal waste in order to extract secondary material resources. Small pieces of solid municipal waste will be stabilized thanks to aerobic stabilization in order to make technological soil.
In her words, the project's realization in Minsk will allow increasing the level of usage of municipal waste up to 78% while making about 131,000 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel and shipping the fuel to Belarusian cement mills, which will use it as an alternative fuel.
The Minsk City Executive Committee has opened a tender to buy technological equipment the waste sorting plant needs.
