hazardous waste

We have assessed the environmental risks caused by the lack of hazardous waste treatment facilities in the industrial region. We have identified such environmental threats as the release of hazardous waste into the environment, uncontrolled flows of hazardous waste that may end up in municipal landfills as household or other hazardous waste. A critical analysis of the existing modern infrastructure in Ukraine, on the basis of which hazardous waste management is carried out, was conducted. The problem of generation and disposal of hazardous waste in the Poltava region was analyzed.

The article deals with the main scientific priorities of the development of environmental research on sustainable industrial development under the leadership of the international expert in the field of natural resource efficiency and cleaner industrial production, Dr. Heinz Leuenberger, Professor and Senior Advisor at the University of Applied Sciences, Basel (FHNW). Current priorities of his scientific research are green industry, resource efficiency and cleaner production, environmental impact assessments, wastewater, hazardous waste and chemicals management, material flow analysis.

In Ukraine, there is a problem of environmentally hazardous handling of used packaging of pesticides and other toxic chemicals and hazardous waste which can pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. The paper presents modern methods of disposal of pesticide packaging in the world and the situation in Ukraine. The Ukrainian and world environmental legislations regulating the problem of pesticide packaging management are analyzed. The scheme of processing and disposal of pesticide containers is proposed.