Recyclable materials are the Klondike for Belarusian companies, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a government meeting to discuss the performance of the country's housing and utilities sector, BelTA has learned.
“People harshly criticize your way of waste management. Those in charge will be held to account for this. It is absolutely unacceptable how you deal with the problem of separate waste collection, recycling and further use of recycled materials,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
According to him, more than 4 million tons of municipal solid waste are produced in the country annually. At the same time, in 2021, only 790,000 tons of secondary material were collected.
“Look, this is the Klondike. Let me explain it in simple terms. We have a huge glass industry (production of glass windows, car windows, glass for TV sets, bottles, and so on). This shouldn't end up in a landfill. All this glass, cullet and so on should be recycled and recovered from this secondary waste. This is what everyone in Western Europe does. Take Switzerland, for example: nearly 90% of this waste is recycled there. This is a cheap resource, a cheap raw material for further use. Our attitude to it is too sloppy,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
Written by belta.by
