Garbage for energy and recycling could be $1.25 billion a year business in Ukraine

Garbage for energy and recycling could be $1.25 billion a year business in Ukraine, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, vice prime minister for European integration predicted Tuesday at a Waste Management conference in Kyiv. Citing Britain, which has a population about twice the size of Ukraine’s, she said: “In Britain, the turnover in waste management is $12 billion, there are 3,000 enterprises and 70,000 workers.” Large farms increasingly import foreign technology to power their operations by burning agriculture waster or turning it into biogas. Foreign companies increasingly bid on tenders for municipal recycling systems.