Will the smoke return to the city from the burned leaves?

Cooperation with authorities / 15.05.2020

A bit dry, warmer and some owners have already reached their gardens. Spring cleaning begins. The townspeople in anticipation of the traditional burning of leaves and remnants of plants, with fear of waiting for their houses to pay off again. We still hope that more people will understand the damage from such irresponsible actions and do not raise fires. Meanwhile, we continue to work for a systemic solution of the problem.

In the autumn, the participants “Stop poisoning Krivoy Rog!” was sent to the city Mayor Yuri Vilkul offers about organizing a landfill for composting leaves or equipment places on existing ones. Also, the DTKR proposed the changes to the improvement rules in Krivoy Rog, which would help to settle the process of harvesting and composting of plant residues.

And so we got the answer! In a big letter, we’ve clarified the norms of the legislation, provided the definition of “solid waste” and quoted the rules of improvement. In fact, delivered question did not write anything. Any answer on the prospects of the landfill was never provided. However, promised to consider changes to the rules of improvement during the preparation of the draft decision of the city Council “on approval of the accomplishment rules in the city of Krivoy Rog”. On the site of Krivoy ROG Resource Center Such a draft decision is in the plan of Project preparation for 2020 year.

But we do not stop – we have sent an offer to the Executive Committee to include measures for prevention of plant residues in the urban ecological program. We propose to consider this issue at a meeting of the City Working Group on environmental issues. We will lobby for the solution to the problem of processing fallen leaves.

And while there are no clear answers from the municipality, we urge the residents of the city not to worsen the state of the environment and burn the leaves. Leave the air a bit cleaner this spring!