Taking care of the environment: DTEK Odesa Grids protects land from industrial pollution and sorts waste
DTEK Odesa Grids is a conscious and reliable company that cares about environmental protection. The distribution system operator builds special shielded sites within the territories of all structural units to store industrial waste temporary, like transformers, scrap of non-ferrous and ferrous metals, etc.
“DTEK is transforming its business in accordance with the New 2030 Strategy, based on ESG principles, values and business responsibility for progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Global Compact. In 2020, the company built 27 shielded storage sites for industrial waste on its own. They are in the areas of electrical networks of Odesa and the region, as well as in the territories of the centralized repair shop in Podolsk, Izmail, Belgorod-Dnestrovsky and Odessa. These measures protected 2,500 m2 of soil surface from contamination. The construction of eight more shielded sites is planned for 2021,” says Oleksandr Fomenko, CEO of DTEK Odesa Grids.
Shielded sites are concrete or asphalt pavements on the ground. They prevent used petroleum products from entering the soil when oil spills out. New or used production materials are temporarily stored at such sites, such as transformers, poles, drums with wire of different capacities, used buses, scrap metal, porcelain, or glass insulators, etc. Workers are using the pieces of the new equipment to do their job, and the used material is transferred for disposal or repair to the centralized repair shop.
In addition, DTEK Odesa Grids itself manufactured and installed 363 containers to sort the industrial waste in the areas of electric networks. The company collects and sorts waste cardboard and wastepaper, waste batteries, oiled paper and rags, waste rubber, etc. In total, in 2020, the company collected and disposed of 28.8 tons of waste.
As previously reported, DTEK Odesa Grids preserves biodiversity and protects the environment in the region. So, in 2020, the company installed 26 nesting platforms for storks, 1,340 reflective diverters for birds, replaced more than 5,000 fluorescent lamps with LED ones, successfully passed an audit and received certificates of compliance with labor protection and environmental management with international standards.