Kobleve community is still waiting for construction of waste sorting complex: investor has not yet delivered equipment

A foreign investor has not yet brought in equipment and started construction of a waste sorting complex in the Kobleve community of Mykolaiv region.

This was reported by Volodymyr Panych, head of the community, in a comment to NikVesti.

In July 2023, the Kobleve Village Council signed a concession agreement with «Centrum Wspierania Obrotu Energia Spolka z ograniczona odpowiedzialnosci», a company registered in the Polish city of Lublin. It will be valid for 25 years.

The agreement provides for the construction of a waste sorting, disposal and neutralisation complex. All works will be financed by the Polish company. It will also purchase transport for waste transportation and landfill clean-up, as well as pay for the organisation of waste processing and disposal.

However, the investor has not yet been able to start construction. Due to the threat of shelling by Russian troops, the company was unable to insure construction equipment for a long time. The equipment is now in Ukraine. However, it has not yet arrived at the site.

«We had a conversation with them. They have already purchased the line, it is already in Berezanka, Kyiv region. They are doing the same project there as we are doing here. They have allocated a land plot, we are doing geodesy and geology. We are moving, albeit slowly, but we are moving,» said Volodymyr Panych.

According to him, there is hope that by the end of the year the situation with the construction and launch of the sorting plant will be clarified.

«I think that by the end of the year, we will have a complete picture of the situation. Maybe we will be able to start preparatory work,» says the head of the community.

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Waste of destruction in Mykolaiv region

At the end of 2023, Mykolaiv region is among the six regions most contaminated with demolition waste: it covers an area of more than half a million square metres of the region. Currently, some of this waste is stored at landfills, while others are still at the sites of destruction. This is harmful to the environment of the region: the destruction waste pollutes water, soil, and air. This raises the issue of their professional disposal and recycling to rebuild the region, as described in the article NikVesti «Raising from the ruins: How is Mykolaiv region going to get rid of destruction waste?»

As of the end of November 2023, 57 hectares of the territory of Mykolaiv region were littered with construction waste caused by shelling. At the same time, the Department of Housing and Communal Services of Mykolaiv reported that by the end of 2023, the city should receive a special installation for shredding demolition waste.

In 2023, five temporary storage sites for demolition waste were identified in Mykolaiv region.

At the same time, a plant for processing construction waste generated by enemy shelling is to be built in Mykolaiv region. The plant is expected to process construction waste from two regions: Mykolaiv and Kherson, said Oleh Pylypenko, head of the Shevchenkove community. The Shevchenkove community also wants to deal with the disposal of hazardous demolition waste containing asbestos.

In particular, the Japanese international cooperation agency JICA, which plans to build a solid waste recycling plant in Mykolaiv, has donated about €5 million worth of construction waste processing equipment to the city. The project to build a construction waste recycling plant in Mykolaiv will start in early 2025, and staff training will begin in autumn. It is planned to be used for the needs of two more regions: Kherson and part of Kirovohrad.

As of 1 July 2024, almost 6,000 tonnes of construction waste was generated in Mykolaiv region due to Russian shelling.

In June 2025, a new plant for recycling construction waste from buildings damaged during the shelling of the city started operating in Mykolaiv.