Processing and disposal of war waste in Ukraine: environmental and legal aspects

Abstract

This article is devoted to the consideration of environmental and legal aspects of the processing and disposal of war waste in Ukraine, as well as the search for ways to solve them.
Full-scale military operations on the territory of Ukraine have led to the emergence of the problem of processing and disposal of «waste of war». Such waste should generally be understood as any objects and substances that were formed as a result of military operations as a result of the destruction or damage of infrastructure, equipment or other property that can no longer be used for their intended purpose and must be removed from the place of their formation. However, they are most often identified with waste from destruction, that is the remains of destroyed or damaged residential or other infrastructure, which make up the bulk of war waste.
Today, the volume of war waste formation is unprecedented compared to the peacetime period, which significantly complicates the already extremely difficult situation with regard to waste management in our country. To overcome the above, it is necessary:
- to ensure strict compliance with special requirements of the legislation on the elimination of war-caused destruction when managing war waste;
- to enshrine in the legislation requirements for ensuring the maximum possible degree of processing and reuse of war waste;
- creation of favorable conditions for the implementation of technologies for the reuse and processing of war waste (involvement of foreign companies that have experience, means and technologies for processing (disposal) of war waste; creation of an appropriate regulatory framework for the management of war waste; introduction of financial and economic mechanisms to stimulate the reuse and processing of war waste).