DTEK Grids DSO specialists sent 1,100 tons of waste for reuse
Despite the rf’s full-scale war against Ukraine, DTEK Grids Distribution System Operators sent about 25% of the overall volume of waste for recycling. This particularly includes metal scrap, used tires and rubber, glass, office appliances, oil products, etc. DTEK Dnipro Grids sent 11 tons of spent transformer oil for recycling and reuse, DTEK Odesa Grids – 9.1 tons of used tires, DTEK Kyiv Grids – 500 kg of plastic, DTEK Kyiv Regional Grids – 8 tons of oil sludge. The waste is used as raw materials for production of goods by other enterprises, thus helping to save natural resources.
“Our DSO do not stand aside from global processes. Despite the war, they continue to implement principles of circular economy, in the field of waste management in particular. We are grateful to all employees, who manage waste responsibly. With their efforts, they not only turn waste into necessary goods or energy, but also reduce the area of landfills in Ukraine and care about environment,” – noted head of DTEK Grids environmental safety department Olena Potapenko.
The company has a special system for storage and sorting of waste materials. There are over 2,000 containers, installed at all production sites, for sorting of 40 types of waste: metal, glass, wastepaper, polymers, greased waste, batteries, etc.
Despite the war, enterprises continue to improve their waste management system.
Since the beginning of the year, they have purchased and fabricated 44 new containers for waste sorting and collection in order to disable any negative impact on the environment and forward as much waste as possible to recycling and reuse. Thus, during the first half of 2024, DTEK Odesa Grids used secondary materials to fabricate 33 containers, with 25 more to be fabricated by the end of 2024.
The company also gradually rejects using equipment, potentially hazardous for the environment, replacing it with the eco-friendly one. For instance, the company has completely stopped purchasing mercury-containing lamps, gradually replacing them with eco-friendly LED lamps. In the first half of the year, 4,419 items have been replaced, most of them in the Kyiv region (1,720 items) and in the capital (1,376 items).